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Most TERF arguments I see against intersex people seem to not actually be responses to things intersex people are actually saying.

For example;

"The only gametes are sperm and ova"

"Humans can't be hermaphrodites"

"There is no third sex"

Exactly what intersex person is saying there are isogamous humans, we are hermaphrodites, and intersex people are a third sex? This all seems to be stuff that comes from well-meaning but uneducated perisex trans people, and most of these TERFs have never actually spoken to an intersex liberationist.

For this reason I think it's very important we (the intersex community) teach our perisex trans siblings about intersexuality and intersex liberationist ideas, such as the abolition of binary sex categorization, not a creation of a sex trinary. Sex traits are real, but "biological sexes" are just names we have given to clusters of sex traits which don't necessarily need to appear in specific tandem, and often can be changed later in life.

The first 40 minutes of this video is a great resource for learning about the general complexity of gonochoric sex determination as well as the specific ways in which a person can be intersex and what it means. It's an incredible introduction to the topic and Forrest Valkai is in general an excellent science communicator.

Intersex people do not prove the existence of trans people, but we do provide a very glaring examples of problems with bigoted frameworks about sex and gender. It's not intersexist to point this out as long as you do so correctly and with the intention of actually making a point about intersex people instead of using us as a rhetorical tool only for the purpose of validating perisex trans people.

And importantly there is no "correct" or "incorrect" way for a person's sex traits to develop. The idea that intersex people were "supposed to" develop differently but failed to do so is the reason the abuse enacted upon us is considered "corrective".

Intersex liberationist ideas generally follow the idea that the binary model of sex is what causes our abuse and suppression, and should therefore be changed or abolished altogether. What this means on a material level is not considering sex trait clusters to be "sexes", instead seeing these as individual anatomical features of a person, essentially nobody (including perisex people) should be assigned a sex and ASAB as a system of categorization should be done away with. Having a penis or a vulva or testes or breasts or a uterus should be viewed as just an anatomical feature you posess, such as brown eyes or being tall, rather than an inherent multifaceted category you are part of.

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tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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“MY GIRLFRIEND IS MADE ENTIRELY OUT OF CIRCLES AND I’M THE LUCKIEST SKELETON ALIVE.”

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on being yourself

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For a brief moment in time humans weren't alone on this planet. I do wonder if our ancestors took note when Neanderthals disappeared, or if they ever wondered where these people went

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All of these are by @mattxiv on Instagram.

Here's to all the shockingly single bachelor uncles or the two very close friends who just happened to be girls and are only living together until one of them finds a man (they lived together for forty two years).

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"what if you regret it" what if I don't?

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