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wormworker · 7 months
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( CN: graphic child abuse, endosexism )
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Mutilating the genitals of Intersex babies is not only horrendous in itself (and universally accepted), it doesn't end there.
Your child will grow up with you having withheld that they're Intersex, and they'll start having debilitating pain and health problems and have no idea why, and neither will their doctors.
Endosex (binary sex) genitals are only part of being Intersex, and not all Intersex people have visibly Intersex genitals. Intersex people have Intersex chromosomes and hormones, regardless of what horrific things you do to our genitals.
Period pain comparable to endometriosis, chronic fatigue, out of control weight problems regardless of how hard we work to maintain a healthy weight, neverending genital pain, excruciating GYN exams that can be so painful they cause PTSD... the list goes on, and NO ONE knows how to help us with our pain because of the almost complete lack of medical research on Intersex people and the withholding of our indentities/diagnoses from us.
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Let's join together to dismantle the oppressive systems used to do harm to millions of people. Together we are stronger.
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hussyknee · 2 years
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pansyboybloom · 3 months
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'you're ripping flesh off your body for a tube of skin to make a false penis 🤮🤮🤮 why do women hate themselves so much, fucking nauseating freak'
yall realize cis men get phalloplasty, right? both intersex and endosex? would you tell a cis man with phallo or penial reconstruction that his penis is a flesh tube or that he's 'mutilating his body' by getting skin grafts? would you talk about how nauseating it looks? would you comment about it at all unprompted? why is it when it's trans men that yall suddenly find phallo repulsive and completely your business? hm? 🤔
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trans-axolotl · 9 months
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Perisex person here, asking purely out of curiosity: why are there so many different terms for not-intersex? Like dyadic, perisex, endosex, juxtasex. Are there differences in meaning or connotation? Is there some kind of complex history behind it or do people just not agree? It's interesting that there isn't a consensus for one word. Also, while I'm at it, is there one you personally feel would be best for me to use?
Hey! So they are slightly different in meaning and usage, even though they all basically mean the same thing. I'll share what i've learned, but other intersex people please feel free to add on your intepretations-a lot of this is going to depend on what intersex spaces you're in. There's not one right answer and I only have one perspective!
Dyadic: have seen this used online at least as early as 2011, most likely was being used earlier than that. some intersex people don't like it because they think that since it is based in the prefix "dyad" which means two, that it still reinforces the sex binary. I personally really like the term compulsory dyadism and think that's an incredibly useful concept, but don't use dyadic as much anymore because I don't think it is as popular a term and I want to avoid confusion.
Perisex: coined on tumblr around like....2014? Seems to be used mostly on tumblr. I don't think I've ever seen any in depth critiques of the term but I tend not to use it as much because it hasn't really caught on in any other intersex spaces. nothing wrong with using it, just my preference. Some people in the notes added on that it’s the preferred term in their country, which is awesome!
endosex: coined by Heike Bödeker, a German intersex activist in 2000. Endo means "inner" or "internal" and is used to signify that someone fits within the constructed sex binary. This is the term that seems to be most widely used in physical intersex spaces, and also is used more internationally. For that reason, this is definitely the term I prefer-although we aren't at a consensus in intersex spaces, this seems to be the most popular term in the region I'm in, and lots of resources, materials, language guides, etc, are starting to use it. Of course, that could always change and that's fine!
juxtasex: have never heard it before now. i never have problems with intersex people creating more language to describe our experiences, but am not familiar with it at all!
I would personally recommend sticking with endosex--I think that is the terms you are going to get the most recognition with. It hasn't really become popular on tumblr, because most of us who blog about intersex stuff use perisex or dyadic, but I think that endosex is a really good term to use irl if you want to talk about intersex topics.
as always other intersex people feel free to add on or disagree!
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scriptlgbt · 11 months
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Note: It's intersex variations, not intersex conditions.
Some variations can also be conditions (like Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, which can affect the way your body processes salt). But referring to intersex ways of being as "conditions" is pathologizing. Endosex ways of being are not viewed as conditions in the same way.
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intersex-support · 11 months
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Something that has been helpful for me when having conversations about what counts as intersex is to really engage in enquiry about what the label means and how we're using it. To me, it's been more helpful to think through questions like:
What purpose does labeling a variation as intersex serve?
In what ways is societal understandings of "typical" changing?
Why was the label of intersex created and has our use of the label shifted?
What ways are we building intersex community? What do we want intersex community to look like?
How do our experiences of oppression impact our understanding of intersex as a term?
What sources are we drawing from when we develop definitions of intersex?
What is the history of the way intersex has been used?
What ways has intersex community been exclusionary in the past, and is that in line with our current values?
Definitions of intersex have always been tied up with what the medical world decides to classify as differences of sex development, but especially in the past twenty years as intersex community has grown more connected, we've started to have a lot more self-determination in our communities. But I think a lot of people still really have a misconception that intersex is a biological "third sex" that is strictly medically defined, and that there are clear cutoffs between intersex and endosex.
Instead, I'd like to bring in the concept of compulsory dyadism to introduce a framework where intersex is an intentional political label used as a way to build community for the people whose variation of sex characteristics are most impacted by the stigma and violence associated with compulsory dyadism.
Sex diversity is not just limited to intersex people. Even within the boundaries of dyadic/endosex bodies, people have variations like different amounts of body hair, penis size, hormone levels, breast size, as well as things like disabilities affecting any of those traits. For example, very few people actually have all the "ideal" traits that line up with this constructed idea of an endosex body that has the exact "correct" amount of estrogen, the right size chest, the ability to bear children, "normal" periods. Many endosex people might have a variation in one of those aspects at differing times during their life, such as during menopause, for example. And this framework can help us understand how diagnoses such as endometriosis are not intersex, but people might still notice overlaps in certain experiences.
But the reason that not everyone is considered intersex and the reason that having a separation between endosex and intersex is important is because of the stigma and violence associated with straying further and further from that dyadic norm, and intersex is a label used to describe people who are the most impacted by that stigma and violence. We have been socially labeled as "deviating" the most from the "normal" sex binary, and consequentially face intersexism both on a systematic and personal level. Our collection of sex variations becomes located entirely outside of the sex binary, and as a result, we often face curative violence, social stigma, and systematic exclusion from many parts of society.
This definition isn't a perfect definition. I think we need to have room to develop more nuance around the fact that many intersex people might not feel like their experience of being intersex has brought them any personal stigma or violence, as well as understanding that there isn't going to be a universal intersex experience. Even when discussing how intersex people are the most impacted by compulsory dyadism compared to endosex people, I think it's important to recognize that within the intersex community, our additional intersecting identities are absolutely going to influence our experiences with oppression and that it's vital to intentionally uplift the members of our intersex community who are most impacted by oppression. In the United States, the creation of the sex binary was an explicitly racist process, and racialized intersex people are subject to additional layers of stigma, violence and scrutiny. (Check out chapters 4-6 in the book Cripping Intersex by Dr. Celeste Orr for a really in depth discussion of how antiblackness and compulsory dyadism are forces behind why the Olympic sports sex testing has pretty much exclusively targeted Black women from the Global South, regardless of whether or not they are actually intersex. Also recommend reading The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Dr Kyla Schuller.) I also have talked with many intersex people who are tired of us always being represented through trauma narratives in the media, and who want us to be able to build a definition of intersex that isn't based around violence or tragedy. And I think that's really important that we also share our stories of intersex joy, and pride, and healing. I think that claiming intersex can be something really radical, and that's super valuable to me.
Overall I think that if we build our discussions around who is intersex on concepts to do with our social and political location, and take into consideration concepts like compulsory dyadism, sex diversity, and disability, we are going to be able to understand why any of it matters better than if our determinations of intersex identity are based solely in medicalized concepts of a third sex.
TL;DR: Although endosex people also have diversity when it comes to sex traits, intersex is still an important label that not everyone can claim. Compulsory dyadism is a force that affects all of us, but intersex people are the most impacted by compulsory dyadism and face intersexist stigma and violence for our intersex variations. As a result, intersex is an important label for us to claim so that we can build community and solidarity around our experiences. I think it is better understood as a sociopolitical label that describes the relationship between our biological bodies and the cultures we live in, rather than as a medicalized term that described a coherent "third sex."
other intersex people feel free to add on to this post-I'm only one person without all the answers, and would love to hear other perspectives!
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kawaiimiraclewitch · 4 months
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lrb I’m putting Vash and Knives’ genders in the cabinet until this fandom can acknowledge the actual explicitly canon trans character Elendira exists, acknowledge that the female characters in Trigun are generally quite important, and stop making Vash trans seemingly just to not only flanderise, but fetishise him
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baeddel-txt · 2 years
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and while I’m at it, I’m begging you people to understand that when baeddels say “transmasc” and “cafabs” they mean all afab trans people.
multigender, abinary, atrinary, and female-aligned afab trans people are implicated under “cafabs” and “transmasc” in baeddel posts just as much as actual transmascs and trans men are.
and, quite frankly, 9 times out of 10, “trans men” and “tbros” also include non-men in baeddel posts.
baeddels don’t care about how we identify. we reject womanhood to various degrees, and as far as baeddels are concerned, that makes us all men.
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wormworker · 7 months
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Intersex hot take or whatever, but I feel like it should be part of a GYN's (& urologist's) job to know about Intersex people. If you don't know about us during a physical exam, you are going to hurt us. Also some of us can & do have babies.
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mxanunnakiraymarquez · 3 months
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Poem: Alone
A ll on my own. Abandoned by too many. Shame on all of you. L onely in a way that makes my heart ache for you, why did you have to die? O ptimism means nothing to prejudiced men who will not give my love a chance. N obody wants to take the time to get to know me. Too many promiscuous cum sluts. E everyone seems to be too scared, too endosexist, too uneducated, and too phobic. By Mx. Anunnaki…
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i don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're transgender or nonbinary and transitioning please do NOT claim to be intersex to avoid being misgendered. do NOT claim to have a hormone disorder and do NOT claim our experiences if you are not intersex. the recent influx of perisex / dyadic / endosex folks claiming to have hormone disorders or to be intersex to avoid uncomfortable situations and misgendering makes me feel sick. you cannot claim to be intersex as a safety blanket. we are real people who exist and face unique struggles, oppression, and violence, NOT your scapegoat.
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deusluxuria · 2 months
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headcanon that when people ask abdul weird and invasive questions about him being intersex, he asks them creepy questions right back
endosexist: does that mean you have "both"?
abdul: i don't know, do you have both kidneys? because i have a cooler in my back seat... what's your blood type?
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trans-axolotl · 9 months
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oh my other complaint about cis intersex people today is when cis intersex people refuse to go into intersex spaces because there are "too many trans people" and they are still "normal." fuck off with that transphobic bullshit-you are not better than us!!!! if you don't want to stand with your trans, gnc, and not cis intersex friends then what the fuck do you want, and why do you want us to carry your burden of the risk when it comes to standing up against intersexism!
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justsomeguycore · 2 months
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i’m sorry to intersex people every day that the concept of agab got co-opted to the point that perisex/endosex cis people think they can use that terminology to identify others casually
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Hey look we're just gonna say transintersex* people dni. They make us uncomfy
*endosex people transitioning to intersex. We are also including endosex people who identify as Intergender (specifically the intersex definition)
*this does NOT mean people who are both intersex and trans. We are intersex and trans and we love people like us!
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