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Every time you use a POC culture or intersex autonomy as a "gotcha!" against gender essentialists but don't even bother to research about that identity, you owe 100$ to every person belonging to that culture and/or to every intersex person

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may we live to see the day where the first photo results of your intersex variation aren't graphic photos of igm

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Poll: is Hermaphroditus intersex?

I recently started the Intersex Wiki articles on Intersex in Mythology and Intersex Art History and it's prompted the question: is the Greco-Roman god Hermaphroditus actually intersex?

For those unfamiliar, this is the god that the h-slur is a reference to. He is traditionally depicted with mixed sex characteristics, usually a feminine upper-half with a penis and testes, usually revealing said genitals.

As is common with mythology, there are multiple versions of his origin story. In some early versions, he is born intersex -- scholars think he emerged as a new form of Aphroditus/Astarte (who were physically androgynous). But in many later versions of the myth, Hermaphroditus is born perisex. [CW: sexual violence] The most common version of the myth known today comes from Ovid, in which he is born perisex. A nymph, Salmacis, lusted after him, sexually harassing him and trying to rape him. She prayed to the gods that they should never be parted. And the gods granted her prayer by merging her body into his. It's some serious body horror shit. 😐️

@praeobscura recently made the argument that Hermaphroditus is not actually intersex. I personally agree that the Ovid version is not intersex, but I have no sense of if we're a minority or majority on this matter, especially as there is no "canon" version of the myth. So, poll:

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Basic info

Perisex means non-intersex. If you do not have an intersex variation you are perisex.

Hermaphrodite is a slur for intersex people.

Contrary to popular belief, it was actually used for intersex humans long before its adoption into zoology to be used for cosexual & dichogamous animal species.

It is being phased out of zoology due to its vagueness and derogatory history.

This movement is still in its infancy, so plenty of sources and communities still use this term. Intersex activists are trying to change this.

Reblog for reach, furries especially!

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THIS!!

THIS IS AN AMAZING WAY TO THINK OF CHRONIC PAIN

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Remember when I told ya'll last month to be ready to start looking for a Discord alternative?

Yeah things aren't looking good for discord.

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There should totally be a movement called “Sleep in Public” where people defend their right to sleep on public property. Sleep in your cars. Sleep on benches. Sleep at the park. Just make it a mundane and regular part of life to see someone napping in the library. It would make it much harder to single out the homeless for harassment if everyone else is doing the same thing and much harder to argue that it’s a “threat to public safety” when it’s so clearly harmless.

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i think its really interesting (read: disturbing) that we as a trans community tout the fluidity and non-binary nature of sex to transphobes (i.e. "there are more than two sexes", which is true), but then seemingly forget it when it comes to concepts like "afab transfem" and "amab transmasc"

we acknowledge that intersex people have complex relationships with sex as a gotcha when speaking with transphobes, and then accuse the same people we used as a talking point of being transphobic for having a complex relationship with sex

we say "afab" intersex women can grow beards, have heightened testosterone, have ambiguous genitalia, have low voices, be perceived as men - and then deny them the word "transfem" to describe their experiences

we say "amab" intersex men can grow breasts, have heightened estrogen, have ambiguous genitalia, have high voices, be perceived as women - and then deny them the word "transmasc" to describe their experiences

we know that the sex someone is assigned can change based on different doctors or events in their life - but then tell them that "there's a word for a cis person who identifies as their assigned sex" as if they can easily be lumped in with cis perisex people

if someone has a relationship with their sex that is not cut and dry, are they exclusively meant to use the word "intersex" to describe their experiences? are intersex people simply not allowed to use transgender language to talk about themselves?

just some thoughts

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Good morning. Random take for today: there should be more autoimmune disease awareness within the trans community.

Not for the sake of fearmongering obvi but like. I developed an autoimmune after abruptly stopping T (causing my E levels to spike, which some autoimmunes apparently love) and it’s kinda striking how many trans women I’ve seen around community spaces for those with the same disease. There are trans men & enbys around too but the only actual studies I could find on my disease & transgender patients were pertaining to trans women and idk it’s just interesting, one of the “solutions” to lessening symptoms was downright mortifying and I just. Really wish it weren’t widely considered a TERF dogwhistle to talk about having a disease that reacts to hormones 😭 because disabled trans people desperately need to be uplifted. Like talking about our issues is the only way to bring attention to them and if we can do that maybe someone will finally figure out a treatment that helps sick trans people without forcibly detransitioning them!! Why the fuck should we care about the opinions of TERFs when trans people are dying! But every trans person w this disease that I’ve spoken to personally tends to keep to themselves about it for fear of handing ammo to transmisogynist pieces of shit who could turn around and fire it off at young trans women to keep them from transitioning. And I can’t say I really blame them, I do the same. We’re all so defeated because most of us were either forced to detransition (an attempt to put the disease into remission) or carry on as normal (only to get sicker because nobody cares to find a solution beyond detransition) & expected never to complain or actually be ill. The invisibility & general lack of research/treatment options is made even worse since this specific illness is more common in black and/or indigenous populations so in turn it’s black + ndn trans people suffering for it, namely black trans women from the studies I’ve seen.

I just wish that we weren’t made to feel like skeletons in the closet of the trans community. And it feels exceptionally shitty to see posts like “I hope XYZ gender trans people get cancer and die” because that is the reality for some of us. More than people who haven’t been there probably assume. And those kinds of posts don’t hurt anybody like they do us.

I don't know anything about this so I'm putting it in #I just work here. Corrections are welcome.

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I don’t know who cares to hear this but if someone asks you to hang out and you can’t but you genuinely want to hang out with them, let them know that the time(s) they suggested don’t work for you and offer new times that do.

If you just say you “can’t/that time doesn’t work” with no follow up, it communicates a disinterest (to a lot of people) just a little tip on maintaining relationships

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Maybe the reason why I'm not as weird about pregnant trans men as some of you are is because I see women's value outside of child birth so I don't need the whole "we were all born from a woman" lecture in order to respect women and see them as human beings.

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a historical transman:"despite being born as a woman, i changed my name since my youth, dressed as a man of my time, refered to myself with he/him pronounce and would literally fight anyone who ever dared to question my manhood with violence and all that i did through most of my life which lasted for decades until my very last breath. also please dont inspect my corpse. thanks."

some "feminists": omg what a girlboss!!🫢🤗 she was such an icon for going through all of that just to achieve success in male dominated jobs!!🙌 what a shame she was forced to pretend to be a guy tho🥺🙄 but dont worry queen!!😉 we will make sure to write you in as one of the greatest women in history!!😘 we got you bestie!!! 🎀🫶

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Fellow intersex folks I'm curious about your romantic partners

Specifically: do they also have bodyminds that are in some way stigmatized by the society you live in (e.g. disabled, neurodivergent, fat, trans)?

Polyam folks: pick the most restrictive sentence that is true for you. (So if you have one intersex partner and one disabled perisex partner, go with "patrnered and they have unconventional bodyminds").

Feel free to interpret "partnered" as including QPRs.