#penile variations

[this-is-varsexism-transphobia]

To all religious intersex and dysex people -

Whatever deities or divine power created you, they made you perfectly. You are meant to be here, your body is natural and wonderful, and you are not a mistake.

Whether you be of a Native religion, Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, Bahai'i, Buddhist, Jainist, Hinduist, Sikhist, Confucianist, Toaist, Shintoist, Zoroastrian, Reconstructionist Pagan, Eclectic Pagan, Druidist, Wiccan, or something else not listed - you are glorious, you are marvelous, and it is a shame that humans have treated something natural about you as something alien or wrong.

You are blessed, regardless of whether you are on the chest variation spectrum, ambiguous genital/reproductive spectrum, the urethral variation spectrum, the penile variation spectrum, the agenital or areproductive spectrum, the split/duplicated genital/reproductive spectrum, the hormonal variation spectrum, and/or the chromosomal variation spectrum.

[dhddmods]

Intersex people with genital variations deserve to talk about their experiences beyond IGM.

People with ambiguous genitals. People with penile traits. People with urethral traits. People with agenital traits.

They deserve to have answers about their bodies, to hear about other people like them. To be diagnosed, to be acknowledged at doctors offices, to see their variations during sex ed and anatomy class.

They deserve to speak about sex, urination, defecation, menstruation, birth.

Nearly half - if not more - of the intersex community have genital variants. Hormonal, reproductive, and chromosomal variations often cause genital variations to form as well.

This is okay to admit. It is not genitalism to want more medically relevant or positive attention to the experiences of intersex genitals. That is the opposite of genitalism. Genitalism is when intersex genitals are demonized, fetishized, used as a talking point, or treated as the only intersex variation there is.

You can say "hormonal, chromosomal, and reproductive variations deserve more attention" without saying "genital variations deserve less attention."