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my 4 week old kitten Breezy from Real Life was confirmed intersex today by the vet and she has ambiguous genitalia! she's also kind of bald and tiny

Breezy from Real Life is intersex, and she has ambiguous genitalia! ... she's also kind of bald and tiny for whatever reason. Hope she recovers from being Bald and Tiny soon!

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certain queers will really believe that gender and sexuality labels have rigid, unchangeable definitions that must be maintained and "protected" from evil queers who want to ID as transman lesbians or whatever, and then go on to act like they are any better than a raging transphobe crying about how the terms male and female "don't mean anything anymore"

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genuinely will never be done thinking about the fact that my ex constantly tried to convince me it was a "misogynistic trope" for a man to complain about his spouse, regardless of the nature of the complaint, how it was expressed, or whether or not it was true. and somehow I spent years calmly trying to explain that yes, it would be a misogynistic trope for me to call you a bitch because you asked me to help with the dishes, but it was not a misogynistic trope for me to say you were being an asshole when you yelled at me for four hours over the texture of a cheesecake

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two intersex people that believe in reciprocal justice start to date,

call that an i 4 an i

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Plusle and Minun from @postmanic's coloring book are intersex, and their variations are Chimerism and Mosaicism!

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Let's try this again! Polling intersex people on slur reclamation

Yesterday I posted a poll for intersex people on reclaiming the h word and it's clear from the replies I was too general/ambiguous in my wording (whoops!).

So I'm gonna instead ask TWO new polls:

Do you think the intersex community as a whole should reclaim the slur? (Like using it for community-wide things like how ISNA had a newsletter called Hermaphrodites with Attitude, or calling intersex people in general this word e.g. "hey how are my fellow herms doing?" etc)

Do you personally identify with the h word? (i.e. personal reclamation)

Second poll to follow in reply to this post!

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say that the sex binary should be destroyed, everyone cheers.

say that as a result, AGAB terminology would become meaningless and fall out of use, and everyone loses their minds.

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it feels a bit... odd? being an intersex cis person sometimes. people really do view you as if youre not able to be cisgender if youre intersex, especially if you have a variation that makes you very ambiguous. ive had to genuinely explain to people in my real life that, yes, i am able to be cisgender, me being intersex does not cancel out that ability. it isnt just intersexists who do this—ive also had interactions in the community with people who say that every intersex person is a "little bit trans." its a bit infantalizing, thinking that you either dont know yourself well enough to know youre 'allowed' to identify as trans or thinking your egg is just waiting to crack. this goes doubly for people who identify as cis-nonbinary or cismasc afab or cisfem amab. we, like... know ourselves best. if a girl who was amab refers to herself as a cisgender woman im just going to believe her and understand that her experiences have led her to identify in that way. i wish other people would do the same.

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to people who have experienced IGM in any form: you are allowed to mourn your body. youre allowed to mourn what couldve been. youre allowed to mourn your loss of sensation, youre allowed to dislike your scarring, youre allowed to feel bitter and angry at the people who made the decision to change your body. even if the surgeries were deemed as "necessary," you are allowed to feel angry for cosmetic changes as well as medically necessary changes you never asked for. youre allowed to feel angry they didnt wait until they could ask you for your consent.

and if it makes you feel any comfort, for those who started ambiguous, they cant take your ambiguity from you. there will always be traces of who you were before they made those changes. there will always be marks to indicate the way you started out. you deserve to feel proud of what you had.

for those who received results you are happy with, im happy the surgeries went the way you wanted. my heart still goes out to you for not being given the choice to be asked first. my heart still goes out to you for the lack of care doctors seems to show at making sure you can still have full sensation. even if it went in the direction you wouldve picked, you still deserved better.

for those who dont know yet, or who may not ever know, if they went through IGM, please take your time. its a slow and heavy process to get through. listen to your body. youre not an imposter for trying to understand yourself and your intersexuality. i am here for you just the same as people who have confirmed IGM.

you deserved the autonomy to your body, and im so sorry that choice was taken from you.

you deserved better.

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Pride 2025 Sketch Daily - Day 5 What about a hike to see the intersex sunset ? I haven't drawn a sunrise or sunset in forever. This was a surprisingly good exercise for me to paint a landscape because I often struggle with the various planes to create depth. Did I succeed?

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CTFA, CTMA, CTFN & CTMN

Flags for intersex people who are close to female and androgynous, close to male and androgynous, close to female and neutral, and close to male and neutral!

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a lot of people scoff at transmascs for not wanting to be friends with people who say stuff like "kill all men" and "i hate men" but what i think a lot of people dont seem to grasp is that when you're transmasc, and one if your friends says something like that, it leaves two possibilities:

a) your friend doesnt see you as a man (which is just straight up transphobia)

or

b) your friend hates you. and idk about you, but i generally require all of my friends to like me. thats kind of just, a baseline requirement for friendship, i think.

but moreover specifically they hate you for being a man. and i think what a lot of people have trouble wrapping their brains around is the fact that, when you're a trans man, and someone says they hate you specifically for being a man, what theyre saying is that they hate you for transitioning. they're saying they would like you better if you hadn't transitioned. they'd like you better if you were cis. which yes, is also transphobia. but also for many of us, (not all, but many) there is no universe in which we would have survived not transitioning.

in my case, i had pretty frequent suicidal thoughts all throughout my life, up until i transitioned. once i reached a certain point in my transition, my suicidal thoughts disappeared. i never had another suicidal thought except when i was put in a situation where i was being denied transitional care. so if i had never transitioned, i would be suicidal if not dead. so when someone says they hate me for being a man, what i hear is "i would like you better if you were dead (or barring that, suicidal)"

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things you DO NOT need to be a man

a dick

he/him pronouns

XY chromosomes

things you DO need to be a man

the swiftness of a coursing river

the force of a great typhoon

the strength of a raging fire

the mysteriousness of the dark side of the moon

^this post was brought to you by LGBT^

Let's

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Business

To defeat the huns

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There’s a poll that asks people if they think if pcos is intersex or not and heaps of people who say “dsd” said no :( so it’s a little sad. Can we have that cute little crocodile smoking a fat blunt in your header have pcos solidarity

Don't listen to DSD bootlickers anon they're objectively wrong forever and don't represent the wider intersex community. Anyways hell yea cousin here's a pcos flag Big Challenges (that's his name!)

Also free meme to make my stances more clear on this blog

(This applies to virtually any other variations that could be considered intersex! I don't like maliciously excluding people who feel they benefit from the community and calling themselves intersex because of whatever condition(s) their body might have that result in congenitally variant sexual characteristics)

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day 429

this one was actually easier than i expected

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Also! I recently checked the Wikipedia page on transmisogyny and found that TME/TMA terminology had found its way onto the page, declaring that the terminology was accepted by all transfeminists - which is a blatant untruth. I've corrected it to say "some" transfeminists but it might be difficult to remove the paragraph on it entirely since Wikipedia usually requires a large justification for it (and the validation of the terminology by a minority of transfeminists unfortunately trumps the vocal opposition to the terminology by (by comparison) laypeople).

If anyone has any (non-tumblr) sources in which people vocally oppose TME/TMA terminology please let me know so that paragraph can be more balanced to reflect that the terms are not universally accepted, as claimed.

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Intersex folks: thoughts on slur reclamation?

If you are not intersex please don't vote! CW this is a poll about the h word.