#intersexist

[theterminalskeptic]

I'm very disappointed to see that transgender people are still going around lying about being intersex to avoid outing themselves.

I can't stop people from doing it but I can warn you, telling someone you have an "intersex disorder" doesn't automatically stop the invasive questions or discrimination. It may work occasionally in the same vein as people who are more trans accepting may not ask invasive questions but it isn't a "step up."

You're frankly benefiting from a group of people who are also seen as "failed cis people" but who also experience medical treatment done not for their comfort and desires but for the comfort and desires for cisgender perisex folk. Genital mutilation, hormone therapy, all of it, many intersex folk experience non consensual or downright coercive "correction" of their bodies.

Except in this situation you're benefiting from idea that intersex people just need treatment to be "fixed" without experiencing years of medical discrimination and treatment done against your will.

Intersex experiences and bodies are not people who have a "leg up" if they choose to transition (and it's not always hormone related, intersex bodies are diverse). I've had chest hair and a happy trail pre testosterone, it didn't suddenly expand and sprout super quickly on testosterone, and all it got me was bullying and poor treatment.

There's more to the experience of intersex folk than you realize because you're not intersex. Learn more about intersex experiences from intersex people, please.

[smilepilled]

intersex person: this thing is only for people who are bodily intersex (which is literally what intersex means), please dont use this if youre bodily perisex. thank you

perisex person: well what about intersex alters??? what about people transitioning to be intersex??? what about the fact i experience delusions and it causes me to think im intersex??? what about the fact i feel icky about being perisex and would LOVE to be a herm instead??? what about my androgyne friend who has a beard and tits after going on T and not getting top surgery??? what about meeee

perisex people will always find a way to treat intersex people as a trophy, goal, or as "just a silly queer label anyone can use"- but when we voice concern and distaste towards said things, suddenly we are bigots, transphobes, ableist, and all the other buzzwords that people throw at intersex people for calling out intersexist bullshit

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[thisismyonlyfuckingaccount]

yall know WHY most pictures of intersex genital variations you can find online or even in academic literature are babies? yall know why? because shortly after the photos are taken the intersex babies are cosmetically mutilated and then their genitals don’t look intersex anymore. if doctors wanted to get ADULT intersex volunteers, with INFORMED CONSENT, to come in and document variations in genital structures, they wouldn’t be able to. that’s why these pictures are all of unconsenting BABIES. unaltered intersex people out there right now don’t have any documentation on their own variations on other, ADULT bodies to compare to (and feel less alone by seeing) because doctors are literally doing cosmetic surgery on babies external reproductive organs. dude. insane.

edit: i’m just thinking about the research ethics and dude. like??? come on. genital variations should be something we allow to progress into adulthood (obviously excluding if there are actual structural pathologies that need surgical intervention, like hypospadia along with PAIS idfk) so we can actually learn how to provide accurate, anatomically accommodating medical care to intersex people. cuz yeah, (not a real stat) 90% of intersex people are given these surgeries at birth but those who aren’t deserve to have their bodies understood by science and medicine. and the practice should be outlawed anyway, if intersex people want cosmetic surgery on their external organs (or even internal!) as adults, that’s a decision they can make at 18. just like trans people. speaking as a intersex person myself.

[transfemboygirl]

i'm not afab or amab, i'm intersex. my agab means nothing, it doesn't say what i do or don't experience, it doesn't say what i can or can't talk about. i've had multiple doctors CHANGE my agab over 5 times growing up. you can't decide what i am because doctors can't even decide. why should i or other intersex people let perisex strangers decide labels for us?

it doesn't matter if you've been told "all intersex people are still afab/amab" because that isn't true. what is true is intersex bodies are commonly forced into one through surgery or forced horomones. that doesn't make them afab or amab, that just makes them a victim of a perisex driven world.

i'm tired of seeing perisex people force me into an agab. especially when it's most commonly whichever they hate more / sees as the enemy. a lot is just plain unhidden sexism. to random people im suddenly afab if im too whiny, im suddenly amab if im too aggressive. then the most recent one is im suddenly afab if i say i support trans men and intersex people..??? as if either is an afab only club? people who do this need to unpack why they're doing it, and preferably stop. i'm so tired.

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[actualalivecreature]

hey so. afab does not mean fem presenting. amab does not mean masc presenting. y'all are just incredibly exorsextist, and intersexist.

[hunny--hunny]

" if men had periods, period products would be free ! " okay like. i get your point. but. i feel like we should use a different example ( or just a more specific one ) to get the point across because there ARE men who have periods. like everyone just forgets that trans and intersex men exist whenever they say this. people need to realise that " man " applies to more than just pericis men

[januscorner]

Perisex people need to fucking listen to intersex people when they say something is intersexist, you do not know better than them on their own lives experiences shut the fuck up

[kindofabastard]

This is how some of y'all think intersectionality works:

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