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hi i have a question about the terms cafab/camab because i assumed that they were intersex exclusive but i see a lot of popular trans perisex bloggers using them instead of afab/amab. so now im kind of confused who they are for and what part of perisex peoples agab is coercive? also all the people ive seen doing this are people who i really dislike and who barely talk about intersex people so idk

anyways have a good day!

All gender/sex assignment at birth is coercive because the baby doesn't get a say in any of it, even if it's purely social and nothing physical is done to their body.

This being said, CASAB terms were specifically meant to speak on intersex people who were surgically altered at birth, and very shortly after adopted by trans people who made the aforementioned observation about AGAB generally. As if "assigned" doesn't already express the idea that it is in opposition of one's own will.

Because there are no records on where these acronyms were first used, it's pretty hotly debated as to which group "owns" the terminology. But the only thing I've seen stating that it came from perisex trans people is tumblr posts saying it was "probably made by a trans woman and stolen by intersex people", so, totally unbiased /j.

That and intersex history is horribly difficult to find, most of our community-made terminology isn't documented and resources like intersex.wiki are EXTREMELY new. Most of our exclusive terms and literature isn't older than a decade. Hell, our flag was made in 2013, not that long ago in the grand scheme of queer identities. It's the most recent out of any in the acronym.

Regardless of which group came up with the term I just honestly don't see a reason for perisex people/people not subjected to IGM to specify that their assigned gender was in fact.. assigned. That's kind of a given. What I find very telling is the fact that the two other variants of this (VASAB & SASAB) were immediately taken by perisex people as well, using the justification of "all sex assignment is violent" and the "AGABpunk" people redefining SAGAB to mean "self-assigned gender at birth" instead of surgically assigned sex at birth.

Most people using CASAB for perisex people know this full well and do so as a way to signal they are intersexist. It's honestly because a dogwhistle of sorts. People like that generally all have the same intersexist set of beliefs that generally includes at least four of the following

Intersex people are stealing terminology/resources from trans people

Intersex activism is inherently anti-trans

Intersex-centric labels and intersex-inclusive interpretations of transgender & cisgender are transphobic

Intersex people cannot be transgender

Intersex people are more likely to be TERFs/sympathetic to TERFs

Intersex people are inherently untrustworthy and lying about their lived experiences

Intersex people (cis or trans) are priveleged over perisex trans people

Fun fact this is why people are getting marked "anti-trans" with SE just for having the intersex flag in their pfp.

It's really obvious to me that sometimes people are just intersexist and don't think legalized systematic child mutilation is worth speaking about if it's done to intersex people. Because intersex people are worth less than dirt to a lot of y'all if I'm being blunt.

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I asked my grand-uncle (he's gay and around eighty) if bi people could be bears or if only gay cis men were allowed to do that and he asked me if I was a cop.

Based guncle

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“black trans men have it easier because they pass so easily as men” so I’m gonna need you to look up some statistics really fucking quickly right now

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regularly getting disappointed by large bloggers on this damn platform that are reallyyyy good at seeming chill and then randomly they're like I fucking HATE transgender men

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referring to "treatments" that are used on intersex people as "cis people getting free hrt/surgeries" is intersexism.

conflating gender-affirming care with often non-consensual "treatments" that are meant to pit us in line and make our bodies conforming to pericis normativity is extremely offensive and misses the point.

the point of gender-affirming care is to make person comfortable in their body. it is by definition consensual (if it's not consensual, it's not gender-affirming care). yes, gender-affirming care is affected by pericis binary standards and expectations (for example, it's way more difficult to find providers who can perform phallus-/vagina-preserving surgeries or nullification. also the way of discussing results of procedures is extremely pericis normative, like, everything is compared with pericis bodies, and differences are seen as inherent flaws). but it is still consensual and, ideally, should work as making people's bodies comfortable for them.

"treatments" for intersex people are often non-consensual. doctors use things from blatant lies and hiding information to coercion and fearmongering. minors may be forced on procedures by adults around them. the point of "treatments" is not to make person comfortable in their body. the point is to make their body conforming. to make it look as pericis as possible. it is closer to conversion therapy than to any gender-affirming intervention.

also, when intersex people do try to get gender-affirming care, we often face a lot of obstacles if it doesn't align with our current assigned gender.

conflating intersex people with pericis people in medical questions is a huge tool of our erasure, hiding our struggles, and painting our medical abuse as something that is not happening and is good actually (pick the version that fits your arguments better /sarcasm).

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You should include intersex people in your activism not bc we prove bio essentialists are wrong but bc we are people who deserve rights 👍

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trans guys if there is no gender neutral bathroom what bathroom do you use? (I’m curious cause I’m nonbinary trans guy that is starting to look more masculine but I’m lowkey nervous about trying to use the men’s bathroom)

women’s bathroom

men’s bathroom

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*wokely* tell me what genitals you have, stranger i just met

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everyone say thank you to black trans women and black trans men

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"it/its pronouns are so degrading!"

That is what people said about trans women. That it would be so degrading for a "man" to be called she/her.

You don't have to understand it. You just have to respect it.

The problem isn't that it's wrong or bad. It's just unfamiliar. Use it and it will become less unfamiliar.

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Shoutout to Black aces who don't feel safe in the ace community anymore. Shoutout to Black American aces who have to deal with their culture being attacked all the time and told hip hop and rap are gross and sex obsessed. Shoutout to non-American Black aces and how people don't think we exist. Shoutout to Black ace women and how the 'asexual women are seen as pure' narrative leaves us out. Shoutout to Black ace men who are never included in discussions about men's asexuality despite people claiming asexual men get left out. Shoutout to Black non-binary and trans aces who can't fit into the white cis female v white cis male binary and its stereotypes. Shoutout to Black non-SAM aces and aroaces who are spoken over by white aspecs. Shoutout to Black alloaces and how we're spoken over by white aspecs. Shoutout to sex favourable Black aces who are conviently never defended pro-sex favourable ace posts even though you experience a worse kind of puritanism on top of antiblackness and how that can come from white sex repulsed aces. Shoutout to Black sex indifferent/neutral aces and how white sex repulsed aces always assume we're sex favourable and sex favourable white aces always assume we're sex repulsed. Shoutout to Black sex repulsed aces who are spoken over by white sex favourable aces who don't understand how antiblackness affects the compulsory sexuality you experience. Shoutout to Black aces who are tired fr. You're not alone.

[Non Blacks can reblog this one just don't put 'I'm not Black/I'm white in the reblogs]

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the lack of recognition of how bathroom bills affect intersex people is intersexism.

this laws are usually pushed under transmisic agenda, and it's fair that trans rights advocacy addresses transmisia in these campains and laws. but these laws also affect intersex people.

some intersex people look visibly sex variant. and they are also seen as a threat to the sex and gender essentionalism. transmisia and intersexism are intertwined and may become inseparable in some parts.

intersex people are also at risk in gendered spaces. we can also be harassed, banned, charged for "violation," face various violence.

it's important to recognize that risk and remember about intersex people in discussions of these laws.

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A popular artist suddenly made a trans man comic, and the viewers are not getting it

Being against a trans man's transition because you think it's too boring is transphobic, actually.

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Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

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licensed from @morggo

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People who are not asexual, I have a question.

So, is sexual attraction like, you see someone outside of a sexual context and you think "I would like to have sex with them?" Like, just some random person on the street? Or is sexual attraction something else?

I just need someone to confirm to me what sexual attraction is because I'm confused