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Don’t let them bury me as someone I’m not.

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On Terminology for gender stuff

So I read this tweet that was like “my afab body” in regards to a person lamenting the effect of his first puberty. Since some words are actually TERFy in origin, sometimes using the wrong ones can undo a lot of the work the community did to separate from the idea of “biological gender” (which is so wrong for reasons I’ll maybe detail in another post). 

When it comes to terminology, this can also be a helpful guide to DEMAND better medicine: what passes for “gender medicine” these days is an absolute joke, “WoMen aRe LeSs prOnE tO CAthcInG CovId” is one take I’ve heard on state-sponsored TV health programs and the thing is, with how gender medicine research gets done, we have no idea if that’s even true. Doctors usually use only a person’s legal gender for this kind of survey (and trans people would muddle the stats anyway so best case scenario we’re just excluded from the scope), this means we have no idea if people with estrogenic dominance catch Covid less, or it has something to do with XX chromosomes. Is it having a uterus? Not having a prostate? literally being a woman (so identity-wise)? these are individual factors that get lumped together under the lazy medical category “women”, when in the real world people can and do deviate: some women have high-T, some don’t have a uterus. What about intersex and trans people, how should we interpret this data? 

Since I can’t fix years of bad medical research alone, I will instead give you a key to saying what you mean in this context: with some luck you’ll get addicted to linguistic precision and will stop tolerating this kind of crap; and maybe in time more and more people will stop standing for unnecessary lump-ins and imprecise language.

When To Say What: When you’re talking about…

How society treats you or other because of their assigned gender: AGAB (AMAB/AFAB for most of the world)

Ex:  “Being AFAB, I was never introduced to STEM as a child”

How your assigned gender influenced the way medicine cared for you: AGAB

Ex: “My doctors at first though that my T was too low, being AMAB and pretty feminine”

The way a specific puberty shaped your body and experiences: E/A puberty, E/T puberty

E/A means “Estrogenic/Androgenic”, E/T means “Estrogen/Testosterone”: the most famous hormones responsible for physical changes that are gender-coded

Ex: “My T-puberty gave me broader shoulders than the average girl”

Ex: “My voice never really drop during my first puberty, being it Estrogenic”

The way your hormonal cocktail shapes your physiology and psychology: E/A dominance, E/T dominaince, or just say the relevant hormones

Ex: “Since I’ve been blocking testosterone, and my muscle mass is decreasing”

Ex: “estradiol makes me anxious, but it gave me back the ability to cry”

The shape of genitals (or any organ really) and how it affects you or someone: <The name of the organ>

Ex: “My penis is small and cute, I like it but I’d prefer a vulva and vagina”

Ex: “My prostate has to be checked frequently for cancer”

Ex: “I don’t like having a uterus: so much drama once per cycle and I don’t even intend to reproduce”

A chromosomal set and its consequences: 23XX, 23XY, 23XXY, or just talk about the specific chromosome

Ex: “People with just one X chromosome are far more likely of being daltonic”

Ex: “Having XY chromosomes, my cat can’t be calico”

For the negative examples (what not to do), I’ll refer you to your own brain, try swapping shit around and hear how bad it sounds. Or worse, use “men” and “women” instead of what you mean: the uneasy feeling you should get is lack of language precision masking or endorsing transphobia and eugenicism/the idea of “ideal human”

Okay, just one: Men have broad shoulders do you hear the wrongness yet?

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please let them be happy

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Fluff is just all I need

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Couple with more than one ethnic???? YES. With GAYS!???? MORE YESSS. I love banana fish.

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Have an Hawks and a nice day. Him and the shitty fire daddy are coming soon.

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This!show!is!ruining!my!life! I just find funny that the file is called “hero.png” when I’m posting the villain. Experimenting with digital colors! Also, it will be tagged “todoroki” because I’m a strong supporter of the “DaBi Is A tOdOrOkI” theory. Also a Hawks and a Deku I will color later. .

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I guess... I'm going to post some shit again... Sorry

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Well I made a valentine card for my boyfriend. Am I lovely lmao?

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I love her, she deserve so much protection and love 💙

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Things for the scholastic #list #school #portrait #election #liceo #artistico #digitalart #draw

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The right image with the faces goddamit #boyslove couple for my friend birthday~ The white and orange cat boy haired is mine, and the other is of him. They are his #OTP #draw #watercolor and #copic #iris #yaoi #ship #cute #hug #kiss

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#boyslove couple for my friend birthday~ The white and orange cat boy haired is mine, and the other is of him. They are his #OTP #draw #watercolor and #copic #iris #yaoi #ship #cute #hug #kiss

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Why did i just started Yuri on ice.

damn my gay side.

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With a permanent marker and a wall of neglected train station.... #gravityfalls #dipperpines #billcipher #disney #wall #graffiti #billdip #draw #doodle #noisy

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Otp~ The Black haired is not a my character >w< #oldlady #fennec #truelove #otp #originalcharacter #oc #lesbian #draw #watercolor

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I would like to explain all my ideas through my drawings. #prison #right #law #person #humanrights #injustice #drawings #digitalart #light #shadow