#intersex thoughts

[intersexcat-tboy]

Ask not related to anything specific but more so me wondering.

Is it odd that I feel bothered when perisex trans men (and any perisex trans person on androgenizing hrt who calls bottom growth the same thing) call their tdick a 'micropenis'?

Like I'm trying to make sense of why I feel bothered by that, and the only way I can word it is it's striking a similar vein to "transitioning to intersex" (in my brain at least)

I don't think it's entirely odd, I can definitely see your reasoning here and I think a part of me also agrees. However, part of me also believes that it is earnestly true for some individuals and is an easy way for individuals to mitigate their dysphoria. The important thing for me is that this vein, unlike "transitioning to intersex," isn't going to cause problems for intersex individuals

[intersexcat-tboy]

Being intersex w a genital variation is not "my genitals are different!!"

It's "my different genitals created a different life for me"

I need people to actually consider this.

Just as I have a disfigurement and many deformities, but I am not sociopolitically Disfigured nor Deformed; you can have an intersex variation and not be sociopoliticaly Intersex

[intersexcat-tboy]

i’m just curious as a perisex trans person, to what you as an intersex person think of perisex trans people saying they’ve changed their sex by going through a medical transition. i personally use the terminology myself, and am medically transitioning with one of the end goals being able to say my sex is more accurately described as male.

of course i know that sex is a social construct as much as gender, but it feels like perisex cis people have somewhat compromised with trans people by saying we’re allowed to say we’re a different gender but we can’t change our sex, and i want to say that when i don’t have my internal reproductive organs, endogenously produce as much estrogen as a cis man, have spent as many years with testosterone in my body as many cis men, and have my chances of certain medical conditions changed to be the same as cis men, then can you really still call me female? i like the idea of introducing more people to the idea that sex is fluid

I find it to be accurate! I sometimes worry about how transmed it can sound bc it may imply ppl who haven't medically transitioned aren't their sex.

Sex is based on multiple aspects, and while some of these can't (yet) be changed (chromosomes, gonads) there are many parts that we CAN change

[the-satin-spool]

Are there any pronouns used only by intersex people?

Edit: I would find it affirming because I am physically intersex!!

[almost-sans]

can dyadic/perisex folks stop using hermaphrodite? if youre not intersex, and it doesn’t matter if youre trans/cis/nonbinary/gender variant, you cant say a slur that was made to dehumanize, harm, and kill us. i domt care what youre race and or ethnicity is either. nor do i care if youre an ally, or a scientist, ot what ever the fuck your excuse is, it still doesn’t matter. you dont call gay folks faggots & defend it by saying it’s scientific. you dont get to call a group of people a slur bc you dont have the decency to treat us as human.

if you’re not intersex, dont fucking say the slur use to justify our continued genocide.

[almost-sans]

there should be more media about the trauma of being intersex & less to none about the steps to "make intersex infants and children normal" also knownas manipulating and traumatize group of of marginalized people.

[almost-sans]

why do people need to know what genitalia a person has in order to further box them?

like let queer people be queer

[stringedpearls]

I cut my own hair, because I want to be in control over my outer gender expression

I cut my own hair, because I’m the one who gets to decide which part of me stays, and which part doesn’t.

I cut my own hair, to say goodbye and thank you for shielding my scalp, please know that you are more than biological waste.

I cut my own hair, because I refuse to let someone have the authority to cut something of me -from me ever again.

I cut my own hair because it grows back, unlike so many other parts.

I cut my hair because I'm desperate to gain back some of the bodily autonomy taken from me. 

I do it because I’m too scared, too tired, too untrusting to let someone else try to understand my bodily expression.

No one will go near me with sharp tools, unless given consent under strict stipulations and conditions, by me - the one who inhabits this body.

I will ruin this flesh before I let someone else shape it.

I cut my own hair, because it’s economical.