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ipso-faculty · 7 months

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Perisex allies: stop this shit

CW: intersexism

Came across this infographic during some google image searching and I'm still kind of a state of despair about it because it's not just offensively wrong about what intersex is, it was used to teach university students about queer issues:

Alt text: LGBTQIA+ are defined one by one. Intersex is defined erroneously as "These are people who were born with genital organs of both sexes (male and female). It is a genetic condition."

It's one thing for your rando perisex person to be getting this wrong on social media. It's another thing entirely when it's professionals getting this wrong in an educational setting. 😩 And that this infographic appears in a peer-reviewed publication. 😩

It's even worse to know the students that were taught with this infographic were medical students, who will be the ones traumatizing intersex people for decades to come 😩

It's so wrong in so many different ways:

Intersex is not limited to people with genital differences. Most intersex people have intersex variations that are not apparent at birth, with puberty being the most common time of life for variations to present. Many people find out in adulthood having no outward physical differences.

Of the intersex people with genital differences, they do not have two sets of genitals. Most genital differences are still recognizably female or male (e.g. spadias), and those who have ambiguous genitals have one set.

Intersex is not "male parts + female parts" or even "intermediate male/female parts", it is an umbrella term for anybody whose primary/secondary sex characteristics don't line up with what is expected for male and female bodies. Some intersex variations make women look more feminine, or make men look more masculine.

Defining intersex by genital differences doesn't just exclude most intersex people, it also sets the tone that we are defined by our genitals. To be publicly intersex is to have non-stop DMs about your genitals. This sort of framing sets up openly intersex people for invasive questions and harassment, and it keeps large numbers of intersex people from coming out.

Many intersex variations do not have a known genetic basis. Many intersex variations are caused by exposure to certain hormonal levels in the womb. Certain medications when taken during pregnancy can trigger intersex variations.

While bodily variation is necessary for being intersex, the social experience of stigma, discrimination, isolation, hyper-medicalization, and hyper-sexualization are all just as much a part of being intersex.

📣 Perisex allies: this is shit you can stop. When you see other perisex people parrot this sort of misinformation, correct them. Direct them to look up resources written by actually intersex people.

Here are some starter resources to give:

Intersex explained by Hans Lindahl

Media and style guide by IHRA

FAQ by intersex-support

A recent post I did compiling information for trans people who want to be better intersex allies

#intersex #text #intersexism #queer #lgbt #lgbtia #lgbt education #perisex allies #psa #actuallyintersex #actually intersex

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raccoon-queer · 1 year

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y'know what? I'm gonna say it

asking if someone is afab or amab is transphobic

the only people who need to know what gender you were assigned at birth are medical professionals and potentially sexual partners. otherwise, there is literally no reason anyone needs to know your agab

"but I have trauma with amab people" "but afab people are annoying" that sounds like a you problem and does not justify asking people what's in their pants. because that is what you are doing – just with politically correct terminology

you cannot call yourself a trans ally and then ask to know what's in someone's pants. end of story

(also? some people aren't afab or amab. neither sex nor gender are binary)

#ace speaks #transgender #trans #trans man #trans woman #nonbinary #afab #amab #intersex #lgbtq #queer #trans ally

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nic-coughlan · 1 year

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happy pride month gays, bi's, lesbians, queers, asexuals, demisexuals, trans, it's our month and that's the

#pride #pride month #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbt+#pride month 2023 #asexual #lesbian #queer #transgender #demisexual #intersex #ally

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yagikidd57 · 21 days

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The queer community isn’t necessarily based on and focused on sex. Trans, Queer, Intersex, Agender, Asexual, Aromantic, & Nonbinary have nothing to do with sex. People can experience romantic attraction and fall under the queer umbrella, like lesbian asexuals exist. They experience romantic attraction to other women but not sexual attraction. So no, the queer community is Not ONLY based on sex or sexual attraction, thinking this way erases Aspec people and the other labels i’ve mentioned.

#lgbtqia+#queer community #queer #asexuality #asexual #asexuality is valid #queer umbrella #lgbtqia+ community #lgbtqia community #agender #aromantic #intersex #ally #transgender #trans

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nyxxx6 · 10 days

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can we play together and Ill give you head- I MEAN heals haha 🫣

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super-ace · 1 year

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Sending love to our trans siblings at this time. Love from the ace and aro communities x

#trans #trans rights #trans community #trans ace #trans ally #trans ace alliance #asexual #aromantic #ace #aro #aroace #queer #lgbtqia #nonbinary #intersex #transgender

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therealamperssand · 2 months

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I Love My Friends!

I love my transfem friends

I love my transmasc friends

I love my nonbinary friends

I love my agender friends

I love my genderfluid friends

I love my intersex friends

I love my questioning friends

I love my closeted friends

I love my cis friends

YOU'RE AMAZING AND I LOVE YOU!

#trans ally #trans #nonbinary #agender #genderfluid #intersex #questioning #gender positivity #positivity

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kaseykeii · 12 days

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Zipped up or zipped down? 😉😉😉

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goddess-juliagold · 3 months

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Mommy's got all you need to be a good sissy pet, approach my Dm let's get kinky😈 sissy

#small dick humiliation #intersex #queer #transgurl #trans gay #trans ally #transisbeautiful #trans selfie #trans people #trans community

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your-friendly-neighbourh00d-fag · 2 years

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allies, thank you, we love you but.

you are not in the acronym. ever. that stands for the aroace spectrum. not ally.

#the amount of people who have genuinely thought A stood for ally #smh #lgbtq+#lesbian #gay #bisexual #trans #queer #intersex #asexual #aromantic #agender #ally #pansexual #aplatonic #abrosexual #sorry i think i missed a few 😓

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jiyuuillustration · 1 year

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I wanted to make some Pride phone charm and grip designs, so I came up with these! 🌈✨ They’ll also be stickers 💖

#pride #progressive #straight ally #asexual #lesbian #bisexual #pansexual #polysexual #aromantic #demisexual #genderfluid #genderqueer #nonbinary #agender #transgender #intersex

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styxthecaracal · 28 days

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Buy My Art; Support a Queer Artist!

Hey everyone! Just coming on here to remind everyone that I have a RedBubble shop that ya'll can check out! I have lots of pride designs up right now, but I'm working on some more. Here's some examples of the pride designs I have up:

(I have a few other flags, but I don't wanna post em' all here. On my shop I currently have: Ally, Progress, MLM, Lesbian, Bi, Pan, Omni, Trans, Genderfluid, NonBinary, Queer, Genderqueer, Aro, Ace, AroAce, Agender, AroAceAge, and Intersex. If you wanna see more flags, let me know which ones you wanna see next! All my pride dragons have a version with eyelashes, and a version without.)

I have other designs that aren't pride, but yeah. If you buy from me, you'll be supporting my savings towards things like: College, a chest binder, b-day gifts for my friend with transphobic parents (I'mma get him a chest binder, too :3), species affirming gear, and food (because I need to stop using my parent's money to by ice-cream every time I get my period).

So if you like what you see, check out my RedBubble shop here or here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/DanisaurStudios/shop?asc=u

Thanks again, and I hope you all have a great day!

Your local queer, alterhuman artist,

Cadence <3

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yagikidd57 · 18 days

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Fuck all the way off calling bisexuals "queers" I'm not "queer" there's nothing weird or deviant about same sex attraction. Most of us don't want to be identified by a literal slur

Queer means someone who isn’t straight or cisgender. It’s a literal adjective. If you feel it’s offensive and don’t want to be labeled as that then my bad but it’s just an overall term to describe the LGBTQIA community. And Q means QUEER. What do you think the Q means? Q- TIP? 😏LMAO 🤣😂

#lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ community #queer #queer community #homosexual #bisexual #trans #asexual #aromantic #agender #lesbians #gay #intersex #ally #lgbtqia+

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nyxxx6 · 8 days

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can cute girls be strong too? 💕

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super-ace · 6 months

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This might be an unpopular opinion but the A can and should stand for ally (alongside asexual/aromantic/agender/a platonic etc) because queer people can be both. Being a queer person doesn’t let you tap out of being an ally to your siblings from elsewhere on rainbow 🫶🏻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#asexual #aromantic #ace #aro #aroace #queer #lgbtqia+#ally #gay #lesbian #trans #bisexual #pansexual #non binary #intersex

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thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra · 4 months

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are you actually an intersex ally or do you just enjoy screaming at salmacian ppl and ignoring actual intersexism

#max squawks #intersex “allies” seeing a random altersex person: you are the reason for all intersexism. kys immediately #intersex “allies” when someone is talking about real intersexism: noo you can't talk about the real issue of intersex genital mutilation bc #what if the terfs see and use it against me. a perisex person 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺"#intersex #intersexism #actually intersex #if it wasn't obvious this post is pro-salmacian and pro-altersex. btw

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