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Let's Make One Thing Super Clear: Intersex People Exist

Let's make one thing really clear, because the newest Radfem and especially TERF strategy is to act as if this was somehow controversial: Intersex people are real, and most of us (though no group as big as ours is homogenous) by far prefer to be called intersex, rather than "DSD", which scientists know and which is the reason why outside very specific medical discussion of intersex conditions scientific articles generally use the term intersex. (It is quite literally stated in several medical papers on the topic!)

Because here is the thing: We are always part of the queer community. We are are discriminated against because of our sex. And the idea of a sexual binary is used to commit attrocious violence against many of us.

if you think you can prescribe to us what sex or gender we are with the only options being "male" or "female" you are committing violence against us. You are saying it is a great thing that many of us will have unspeakable mutilations done upon our bodies AGAINST OUR WILL to fit into that binary.

You are saying, that actually it is fine and dandy to MUTILATE CHILDREN.

You are not a feminist. You are a horrible person if you think that. You are quite literally Nazi-levels of evil if you hold that opinion.

No, many of us - most I would say - do not think we have a fucking disorder. We just want to live in our bodies as we were born, and if we think we fit into a binary gender make this decision ourselves, as teenagers or adults.

Do not dare to talk over us. Because that is what you do. You take one of the most vulnerable groups - right now we have literally no legal protections against the mutilations forced upon us - and claim they are for you.

We are not.

Many of us are trans, because it turns out that in fact doctors or parents deciding what gender an intersex kid has at birth are right LESS THAN 50% OF THE TIME. Like, they literally are worse with this than they would be predicting a coin flip, forcing many of us to transition. At times restoring bodily features that originally had been there - or removing those that would not have developed without medical intervention.

Do not dare to act as if we are on your side. We are not. Fuck off.

If you are a TERF, you are also intersexist. No, we are not part of some fucking binary you came up with. We also do not identify as a "disorder". We are intersex. We are queer. And you want us mutilated, you fucking monsters.

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nothing has been more important to my being queer than when i went to my first pride parade, got seperated from my group, had a panic attack about it and was sitting on the side of the road holding a tiny genderfluid flag and freaking out. then this six foot five drag queen in four inch heels appeared from literally nowhere and sat down next to me. i, this scared-shitless trans bi kid at pride for the first time, very nervously told her she looked pretty and i told her my name and that i got lost and didn't feel like i should be at pride and she held my hand and said "oh, honey, everybody deserves to be here, especially you. pride is for everybody who's ever gotten lost, who's been scared of who they are or where they are. you think we never been scared before? pride's for you, honey, because you're scared. you don't have to be proud right now, but you're gonna be one day, honey, i'm sure of it."

i found my group soon after that and i never saw that queen again but to this day i am convinced i met an angel.

so yeah. pride is for you. pride is for all of us.

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Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.

It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.

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Why this got me boppin at my desk tho lol

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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Credit to: user

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Is funny how money problems just make you Weird and Manic

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mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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im seeing a lot of "queer people dont kill yourselves" posts and yes, i agree but also poc folks dont kill yourselves. you're needed in this space just as much as the white folks are. we will get through this hand in hand together

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20 million votes have been uncounted

Link to this Tweet here

Link to the tweet here for the image above

Link to the White house

If you need further help in a quick format, here is one, but i urge you to also add in the details for requiring an investigation, not just recount.

I know its a shitty situation and were tired but we still have to try to fight for a life that's worth living.

If you can blaze this post, GO FOR IT!!!

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Especially on (US) election Day remember the Palestinian cause. Both candidates participate in a genocide against Palestinians, either win is a loss. You can't celebrate or mourn the results without remembering over 43,000 innocents have been killed thus far as a result of the genocide. A vote for either candidate is a vote for the deaths of Palestinians. Neither one is a moral choice, there is no lesser of two evils. There are two fascists on the ballot and either way we are inherently complicit in this genocide as USAmericans.

Compiling links for fundraisers.

Clicks for Palestine

Crips for ESims

Individual Fundraisers

Mohammed Nasseer's Family $1,245/$10k, 80 donations

Hashem's Family $7,200/$60k, 410 donations

Shaima's Family €4,253/€50k, 288 donations

Ghazal Naseer £2,868/£25k, 165 donations

Shawwa Family, $6,361/$25k, 362 donations

Mahmoud's Family $23,467/$60k, 569 donations

Heba's family $2,561/$30k CAD, 129 donations

Mahmoud Jehad and Family, $8,270/$25k, 583 donations

Hazem Shawish's Family €18,434/€50k, 1.1k donations

Ahlam Ramadan's Family €4,430/€20k, 267 donations

Hossam Saleh Mohammed El Bardawil $23,914/$30k CAD, 837 donations

Doaa and Omar $4,250/$40k, 162 donations

Muhammad Al-Sir's Family, €2,367/€50k, 117 donations

Ibrahim's Family €9,715/€20k, 511 donations

Mohammed Ayesh's Family £20,359/£60k, 1k donations

Master Lists

El-Shab-Hussain's Direct Contacts

Google Doc of Vetted Fundraisers

Do your part, recognize our complicitness as USAmericans in this genocide. I will be adding more to this post as time goes on. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🕊️

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💙 USA 💙

national suicide prevention (edit: alternatives to 988)

national domestic violence hotline

national sexual abuse hotline

trans lifeline and resources

💙INTERNATIONAL💙

list of suicide hotlines by country

domestic violence hotlines and resources by country

sexual (+ domestic) abuse agencies by country

international trans resources

edit: taking this opportunity whilst this gets traction!

Palestine Children Relief Fund

Lebanon Red Cross

International Rescue Committee (Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza, Congo etc.)

Ukraine Red Cross

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I don’t even know what to do. I don’t understand how people could be so callous. How they could be so cruel.

How deep does the racism and misogyny have to run to elect that. To elect him. Instead of Kamala Harris. I don’t know what to say. I’m disgusted with my country.