#ipsogender

[fun-eralsss]

thank you!

being intersex is quite possibly the most isolating thing i’ve ever experienced. all my life, i felt alone. that no one in the world knew what was wrong with me. that i was a weird, abnormal freak.

i felt horrible. and so, i made sure that i would make people like me feel seen

every day, i see people sharing the terms i created, talking about how relatable they are. when i first saw someone talking about how seen they felt (i love you smilepilled!!!!) my heart was a damn opera, it was singing so much!

while things are pretty bad right now, i’m grateful to have provided a little bit of comfort to those who need it

with that being said…

i love you “broken women”

i love you “failed men”

i love you “deformed weirdos”

i love you “DSD males”

i love you “DSD females”

i love you “irl futa(nari)s”

i love you hermaphrodites (with attitude!)

i love you diseased freaks

i love you XTFs

i love you XTMs

i love you XTXs

i love you AMAB transmascs

i love you AFAB transfems

i love you trans intersex people

i love you ipsogender people

i love you ultergender people

i love you cistrans people

i love you intersex people <3

intersexuals; the best thing since sliced bread!

[boygirlfemme]

𐙚 ﹐afab transfem / amab transmasc

a term to denote intersex individuals who are transitioning to the gender quality associated with their agab due to being intersex.

ex. one may id with being an afab transfem due to undergoing feminizing medical transition, having masculinity forced on them, not being seen as a woman, etc. + vice versa for amab transmascs

my flag designs ! ꒱

[yourfaveisintersex]

Ralsei from Deltarune is intersex, an ipsogender (link) androx (link), omnisexual & omniromantic, aliquasexual (link) & aliquaromantic, and polyamorous, and his variation is Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (PAIS)! His traits include ambiguous genitalia, persistent urogenital sinus, mild breast growth, and minimal horn growth.

Requested by @altersex-punish

[isobug]

Ulteripso / Ipsoulter flag and symbol

I had planned on making these forever ago but only just found a format I was decently happy with. It combines the format of the Ultergender flag with the Ipsogender flag. I used my sensory friendly edits of both to avoid eyestrain !!

You can use these for any Ulteripso / Ipsoulter identities and not just Ulteripsogender / Ipsoultergender, Ulteripsosex / Ipsoultersex. etc.

Here are the isolated symbols for use anywhere.

Plain / Black symbol ( both rotations ) :

Colored in like the flag ( both rotations ) :

The symbol is a combination of multiple alchemical symbols for Earth ( the circle with a cross inside and the triangle with a line ), the symbol for the planet mercury, and multiple different elements of gender symbols ( cross, circle, asterisk, arrow, etc. ) and can be used in any rotation / orientation / color. Basically just pick whatever looks best or your aesthetic preference.

I ended up going a different route than just a combination of the existing Ulter- and Ipso- symbols since they look so similar. Also, I wanted Ulteripso / Ipsoulter to have more of it's own identity ( since there are those who use it only as a combination, Ulteripso people who wouldn't consider themselves Ipso outside of their Ulteripso identity, etc. )

I'll be posting the higher quality files of everything on my Deviantart whenever I can. These were in my drafts for a very long time and are being posted with assistance from someone else, so if there are any formatting issues please ( kindly ) let us know and we'll fix it !!

Taglist - @radiomogai, @daybreakthing, @interarchive, @varsex-pride

[q-u-i-n-a-s-i]

Interfluid

An intersex exclusive term for intersex people who are fluid through the gender modalities such as: transgender, cisgender, ultergender and ipsogender.

Someone who is interfluid may also identify as different gender labels with different modalities at different times, such as:

-feminine, -masculine, -androgyne, -neutral, -outherine, -xenine, etc.

Someone who is interfluid does not have to identify with all modalities, or genders! One might only identify as a few modalities and genders out of the examples listed.

[masquerade-flags]

Ipsoultergender/Ulteripsogender, Ipsotergender, Ultersogender

Ipsoultergender/Ulteripsogender - Being both ipsogender and ultergender for any reason. This term is meant to be analogous to cistrans/transcis(tris).

Ipsotergender - Being ipsoultergender/ulteripsogender and being more ipsogender than ultergender

Ultersogender - Being ipsoultergender/ulteripsogender and being more ultergender than ipsogender

[These labels are intersex exclusive!]

[scrapheapchallenge]

I've put the finishing touches to my new powerchair StarBug2 the Freedomchair DE08L. I've added new stickers, some made by me, some made by friends, others off redbubble. I used to volunteer as a bat rescuer, and I was holding a space on one fender for this adorable little pride batty. Plus a roundel on the other fender. Thank you again to EVERYONE who shared and donated to the fundraiser to get me mobile again and give me my freedom back. I love you all <3 Now it's on to new adventures with StarBug2. On Saturday it's my birthday, so myself and my partner are going to a firehouse ghostbusters event to fundraise for Great Ormond Street Hospital - to whom he owes his life. He'll be doing his ghostbusters cosplay and StarBug2 will have its first outing as an Ecto-1 car cosplay. Fortunately the boards I made for StarBug1 will fit the new one as well. Then later in July, there'll be a Good Omens flaming Bentley cosplay for it as well for The Ineffable Con 5.

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Eric Cartman from South Park-Intersex, Ipsogender Gay Boy

Requested by @trans-dwightschrute

Status: Alive

[queercripintersex]

Intersex folks ONLY: how do you relate your gender to your AGAB?

If you're not intersex please don't vote, it makes it hard for us to get an accurate set of results!!!

I'm pulling the terms from intersexfairy's Intersex Glossary <3 "Gender modality" means how you relate to your AGAB (e.g. cis, trans) and is not the same as gender identity (e.g. woman, man, intergender, non-binary)

[interarchive]

Ipsofeminine + Ipsomasculine Flags

"id: two 6 striped flags with two large middle stripes with a thin white stripe between them. the two top and bottom stripes are colored in a mirror pattern. the stripes closest to the middle on the left flag are colored light orange and the outer stripes are colored pink. the right flag is colored light indigo and blue respectively. end id

Ipsofem + Ipsomasc have been coined by intersexfairy and are defined as;

“A gender modality for Ipsogender people who are of a feminine gender identity or transitioning femininely. May be abbreviated as 'ipsofem.’” and “A gender modality for Ipsogender people who are of a masculine gender identity or transitioning masculinely. May be abbreviated as ‘ipsomasc.’”

The flags have been created by myself."

Originally posted by @interarchival on January 5, 2023. Wayback Machine capture in the post source.

[yourfaveisintersex]

Eric Cartman from South Park is an intersex ipsogender (link) boy, and his variation is Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (PAIS)! He develops gynecomastia when he's older, is proud of his intersex body, and loves his intersex cat Mr. Kitty!

Requested by @trans-dwightschrute

Intersex flag-only edits under the cut!

[isobug]

Ouroboros Intersex ( or Uroboros Intersex )

( ID 1: A yellow flag with a purple Ouroboros in the center. The Ouroboros is a snake eating its own tail, forming a circle. /End ID. )

( ID 2: A purple flag with a yellow Ouroboros in the center. The Ouroboros is a snake eating its own tail, forming a circle. /End ID. )

The Intersex flag by Morgan Carpenter, but with an Ouroboros / Uroboros in place of the circle. The second flag uses the "reversed" color scheme usually associated with the Ipsogender flag!

Made as a request and can be used by any Intersex person for any reason! ( Fun or serious. ) Perisex people do not be weird, ty.

Taglist - @intersexflags, @radiomogai, @revenant-coining, @intersexcat-tboy

[masquerade-flags]

ipsogender ultersex flag combo?

Ipsogender Ultersex flag combo

[q-u-i-n-a-s-i]

I think the term ipsogender was coined for this purpose in order to describe intersex people who identify with a gender that matches the sex they were coercively assigned as. Ipsogender explains this experience very well without putting us in proximity to perisex cisgender people.

Other intersex people, of course, are free to identify as cis if they want to if they find that language useful! Although, I wonder how many intersex people use "cis" because they aren't aware that ipsogender exists?

I don't think @thevelveteenvamp is saying that the individual intersex person can't or shouldn't describe themself as cisgender if that's how they want to refer to themself. I think he's saying that we need to stop blanket-referring to ipsogender intersex people as cis. /gen

I need people referring to intersex people whose outward sex characteristic “match” binary sex to stop calling that cisgender. I need people to stop calling intersex people whose external sex characteristics that match whatever some doctor forced onto their sex marker at birth to stop calling that cisgender. THAT is not cisgender. Intersex cannot be cisgender, it can identify with a binary gender but it cannot simply be cisgender because by being intersex one is definitionally and medically, and yes physically not cisgender. I’m an intersex man, I am not cisgender; I’m still a man, but an intersex one not a cisgender one. Stop quantifying how much a gender is valid by tacking “cisgender” on it because you don’t fucking understand what being intersex means. And especially if you’re trans saying this, STOP SPEAKING FOR US AND LISTEN.

[antiterf]

Its kind of ridiculous how difficult it is to find critical intersex literature if you don't know where to look.

That said, here are frequently cited things I've found. For the one's that are behind paywalls, I have a Google Drive folder set up to hold them for access. The only things I leave behind a paywall are books by individual authors. They are not organized at all, I'm sorry.

Intersex Variations Glossary by InterACT

Narrative Symposium: Intersex—Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2015.— Trigger warning for intersex genital mutilation (IGM), sexual assault, and medical trauma—it's honestly a lot but incredibly important. (Drive)

A human rights investigation into the medical "normalization" of intersex people - A report of a public hearing by the Human Rights Commission of the City & County of San Francisco

Surgical Progress Is Not the Answer to Intersexuality - Cheryl Chase. - TW for IGM and images of genitalia (Drive)

The Intersex Roadshow, a blog of Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello - Costello is an intersex trans man and tries to bridge the gap between trans and intersex issues

Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology - Cary Grabriel Costello - Chapter 12 of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment (Drive)

Transgender and intersex: theoretical, practical, and artistic perspectives (book/textbook) (Drive)

Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia (Book) (Open Access)

Fixing sex: intersex, medical authority, and lived experience (Book)

The harms of medicalisation: intersex, loneliness and abandonment (Open Access Article)

Intersex: cultural and social perspectives (Open Access Article)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Technical Note on the Human Rights of Intersex People. Basically, if you want an easy way to say that doctors are going against human rights by performing IGM.

An experimental philosophical bioethical study of how human rights are applied to clitorectomy on infants identified as female and as intersex (Open Access Article) - People were more likely to support the same surgery on infants labeled as intersex than they were on infants labeled as female.

Caught in the Gender Binary Blind Spot: Intersex Erasure in Cisgender Rhetoric by Hida Viloria - About how cisgender often doesn't accurately express the experiences intersex people have. Costello, mentioned earlier with Intersex Roadshow, coined Ipsogender for this reason.

Introduction for Intersex Activism - A guide for allies

Sex, Science, and Society: Reckonings and Responsibilities for Biologists (Open Access Article)

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by Georgiann Davis - TW for medical trauma

Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory by Zine Magubane (Drive)

Owning Endosex Privilege and Supporting the Intersex Community: WPATH, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), and Sex Variant Bodies by Margo Schulter

The Spectrum of Sex by Hida Viloria and Dr. Maria Nieto

A long way to go for LGBTI equality from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Before the UK left the EU

If anyone wants to add, feel free! This was the non-medicalized stuff I had saved in Zotero, and definitely not all that's out there.

[ipso-faculty]

New intergender flag design

Intergender: an intersex person whose gender feels connected, linked, influenced, or a result of being intersex. This term is used as a descriptor of one's gender (e.g. an intergender trans woman) similar to how neurogender is a descriptor. Intergender is also used as a gender in of itself (e.g. hir gender is intergender). This is a well-established term in the intersex community.

I'm personally a minimalist when it comes to queer flag design. This design takes the Carpenter intersex flag and inverts the colours, to reflect how intergender is a complimentary term to intersex.

I'm also influenced by interpunked's intergender flag design, which I think had some good ideas but is too busy for my personal taste.

The colour fits nicely with how the ipsogender flag already does this (it replaces the ring with the Earth symbol). It also allows us to take flags with a design of intersex flag + <icon of other thing> and turn them into intergender flag + <icon of other thing>, like so:

[intersex + autistic, intersex + disabled, intersex + plural, followed by intergender + autistic, intergender + disabeld, intergender + plural]

I've put up an SVG version of this new intergender flag design on Wikimedia Commons here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intergender_Flag.svg - it's public domain and free to use! <3