#cah

[foldingfittedsheets]

Back in 2017 I signed up for one of the Cards Against Humanity sillies and did their Cards Against Humanity Saves America. Basically they were like fuck Tr*mp and his border wall and used the funds from the campaign to buy land and to make all 150,000 contributors part owners of said land across the US/Mexico border.

It was fun and silly and I got a little certificate.

Today I got an email that Elon Musk illegally annexed that land for SpaceX and that CAH are suing him over it. So possibly I’ll get like $100 if they manage to win a lawsuit and stick it to Musk. It’s like even more bang for my original buck.

[beowulf22121]

I have received an important email. It's kind of a big deal, especially in the sad world we live in today.

Here's the article pictured above with working links.

So yeah, that's a thing. Lets let him know this is something we'll take seriously.

[assignedfailure]

I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to say for Intersex Awareness Week, and I want to challenge a few myths.

Myth 1: “Intersex people are super rare.”

They’re not. Even the often-cited 1.7% estimate is outdated, it came from limited data in the 90s. Historically, before intersex genital mutilation (IGM) became common, the number of intersex people was closer to 6%.

So why the drop? Because intersex people have been erased, literally and systemically.

• Many of us are sterilized as children without consent.

• Parents are pressured to agree to “normalizing” surgeries on infants, and can even face CPS reports if they don’t.

• Intersex fetuses are often aborted, and infanticide of intersex babies still happens.

That’s not nature making us rare, that’s eugenics.

Myth 2: “There are only a handful of people with each intersex variation.”

Take mine, for example: CAH due to 3β-HSD deficiency. Online sources say it’s so rare only ~60 people have it. That’s not true. I see people diagnosed with this every week in intersex and CAH support groups. The data just hasn’t been updated in decades.

Myth 3: “Everyone is biologically male or female.”

I don’t buy that. The idea of “biological sex” as two neat categories is a social construct, and honestly, it functions like an insurance scam.

My assigned sex at birth wasn’t male or female, it was indeterminate. But insurance and medicine demand boxes, so they make one up.

Doctors don’t even treat “sex” as meaningful when it matters, I’m constantly forced to take pregnancy tests even though it’s biologically impossible for me to get pregnant, all because my legal sex is female. Also, assigned sex at birth, legal sex, and gender identity are three separate things and not everyone has them line up.

What does “biological sex” even mean when:

• Some people have both XX and XY chromosomes,

• Some have ovotestes and produce both sperm and eggs,

• Some women with XY chromosomes can carry pregnancies,

• And some people are born with both a penis and vagina?

Nature is messy, and that’s normal. Being intersex isn’t tragic or broken. I’m proud to be intersex. I’m glad I’m intersex. I’m glad I’m alive.

I want a world where being intersex isn’t medicalized or erased: where sex diversity is celebrated as a natural part of being human.

[cah-culture-is]

does this image count

FUCJ YES IT DOES. MEEEEEEEE I'm obsessed with how this is edited. The soyjack with like the amateur pinterest-style editing is such a combination

[donniehaspronouns]

y’all hear about this shit

[yourfaveisintersex]

AveryTheMayo from Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist is intersex and transfemmasc (link) using he/any pronouns, and his variation is Non-classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (NCAH)!

[chronicallyleggless]

Intersex userboxes pt. 2!!! (Full pack)

[thisis-intersexism]

sorry if this isn't the place but last year i was incorrectly diagnosed with pcos by a gyno. she didn't even run any tests or anything, she just look at look at my body hair and the fact that i had one excessively long abnormal period (one that lasted 6+ months that left me severely anemic which is why i was there) and told me to start taking hormonal birth control. my family has a history of cancer so i was freaking out. she was very incompetent and actually didnt even realize she was reading the wrong file for the first 10 minutes of my appointment. i've now learned i have CAH and not PCOS, no thanks to that terrible gyno

This is intersexism.

That's. So so so horrible, anon, holy shit. I hope you didn't have to start HRT bc that's actually horrifying, and I'm glad you've been correctly diagnosed now!!