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justdavina · 5 months

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Sofia Miller: OMG, OMG, OMG!!!! An absolute Stunner! I can't stop staring at this transgender goddess ! PERFECT everything! She has the face of a princess , her long flowing black hair is supreme. The cross top black mini dress is to die for! Her legs just drive me CRAZY!! Her skin tone is flawless! And her tiny polka dot hand bag is adorable! 5 Kisses for her! 💋💋💋💋💋 Trans woman ARE REAL Women!

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sharknado-three · 1 year

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Homophobes: I don't hate people who struggle with homosexual tendencies, I just think sodomy is a sin and responsible for spreading disease. I will do anything in my power to stop people from having gay sex, including campaigning to make it illegal. I believe being visibly homosexual in the presence of kids is making kids gay and shouldn't be allowed.

LGBT+ community: That's homophobic.

TERFs: I don't hate dysphoric females, I just think transitioning is causing irreversible damage and reinforcing sexist stereotypes. I will do anything in my power to stop "confused lesbians" from destroying their bodies, including campaigning to make transition illegal. I believe being visibly trans in the presence of kids is making kids gender-confused and shouldn't be allowed.

Some of you: Wow, TERFs sure do love AFAB trans people! They literally said so and we know bigots would never lie about that!

#transandrophobia #transandromisia #transmisandry #tw transphobia #tw terfs #transphobia #we (trans ppl) are all targeted by TERFs #the consequences of their actions are going to affect us all and more (GNC and intersex peeps #women looking to get hysterectomies/mastectomies for health and comfort reasons #etc.) so can we please not underestimate the threat for the sake of keeping a simplified model of oppression simple #and easy to wield in internet debates against trans men please? It's not helping anyone but transphobes in the long run.#hope I won't have to delete this later #tw homophobia

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queercripintersex · 11 months

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Oh lovely, there's a perisex person going around the intersex tags who read a bunch of medical literature, a few webpages of one long-defunct intersex advocacy organization, and now thinks they have the authority to say what intersex is, that sex isn't socially constructed (sigh), and that the problems facing intersex people are that we face "misinformation about what being intersex is".

I'm honestly at a loss at how to deal with this stuff. Somebody says they spent many hours reading medical literature, doesn't seem to have read even the most basic materials from intersex studies, openly admits they don't follow any intersex people, and now feels entitled to tell us intersex people that the problems we're facing is that we're getting it all wrong? Seriously?

This sort of hyper-medicalization is actually very seriously part of the oppression that intersex people face! If you want to understand what intersex is you cannot only read biomedical sources and one old intersex advocacy website. You have to read actual works from actually intersex people on the experiences we face. You have to actually listen to a large variety of intersex voices, not just a single one that coveniently doesn’t challenge you or your beliefs.

Because if you did you'd know that being intersex isn't just about physiology, it's also about the social experience of experiencing intersexism. And the hyper-medicalization contributes to the intersexism!

The hyper-medicalization takes the focus off of the actual social experiences of being intersex, and sets the tone of the conversation about policing categories and diagnoses rather than dealing with oppression, stigma, and isolation.

The hyper-medicalization means that intersex people don’t find the community we need, only furthering the isolation and shame felt by so many intersex people.

The hyper-medicalization means that intersex people are not given the basic respect to be authorieties on who we are, that instead it is doctors and biologists who get to decide what intersex means and that if we feel otherwise (which we so often do) that we are wrong.

#intersex #intersexism #rageposting #medicalization #social model of intersex #it's a thing #aaauuuuugh

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the-mountain-flower · 14 days

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Revisited a story that was very important to me as a child, and learned about the author being very vocal about the harm gender roles & stereotypes cause. I thought "oh that's great!" but was afraid. What if she only applied that logic to cis ppl?

I did some searching, and found out that not only does she support trans ppl, but has also spoken multiple times about how important it is to be able to see protagonists outside of the perceived norm. A.K.A., she doesn't see my very existence as wrong.

I let out a deep sigh of relief. I could continue to enjoy this thing that had been so important to me growing up.

But this isn't the first time something like this has happened. Too often I discover a new artist, or even be unsure of one I've enjoyed the work of for a long time up to the present; and I have to desperately search to know if I can enjoy their work. Either I am extremely relieved, or absolutely crushed.

This shouldn't be necessary. I shouldn't be feeling this deep fear that something so important to me, was created by someone who despises my very existence. That I, as a disabled queer femme ex-mormon Pagan witch who was raised like a girl, will be shoved off the emotional cliff of "this person you looked up to hates you for the same reason all bigots do".

I was so terrified that something that meant so much to me as a kid could've shattered me emotionally. Simply because I didn't know if the person who made it hates people like me.

We shouldn't have to live like this.

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thebreakfastgenie · 4 months

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What actually bothers me about the way tumblr users post about House MD is they seem to mistake the genuine early 2000s bigotry for post-post-ironic terminally online 2020s humor and that's much more about post-post-ironic terminally online 2020s humor than it is about House MD. I think it's dangerous to go that deep into ironic homophobia and transphobia when we are experience such a backlash against gay and trans rights and seeing zoomers on tumblr claim a transphobic early 2000s character as one of their own when that character hid behind irony to excuse the bigotry and claim it wasn't sincere is worrying.

#house is canonically transphobic so is wilson #they do casual transmisogyny in one episode for NO reason #but the way house treats the intersex teen model patient also #yeah I'm a scold and I hate fun

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demonic-shadowlucifer · 11 months

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Made YET another edit of this meme

(Image ID: An edited image featuring three pikachus holding either strop signs or rainbow flags and floating text. Part of this meme has been edited out in black with white text added. The text reads "it's "june" which mean it's Time for a reminder that the original version of this meme is incredibly aphobic and ignores the existence of trans and nonbinary people too. Straight aspecs, straight trans folks, straight intersex folks, straight nonbinary folks and heteroromantic gays/lesbians/mspecs exist as well and are still queer. Queer =/= nonstraight. Happy Pride Month yall!". There is also an arrow and black text which reads "And vice versa!". End ID)

I made a typo in the meme but I can't be assed to fix it lol.

#shadowchats #meme #split attraction model #transgender #transhet #aspec safe #mspec safe #mspec lesbian safe #mspec gay safe #heteroromantic homosexual #queer #lgbtq #nonbinary #mogai #liom #intersex #read pinned before interacting

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ipsogender · 9 months

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The Social Model of Intersex

I recently wrote up an explanation of the social model of intersex and here I'm gonna take what I wrote the other day and expand on it.

Exposition: Some Disability 101

The social model of intersex is based on the social model of disability so first we need to know that terminology:

The medical model of disability views disability as something inherently disordered, requiring treatment/cure.

In contrast, the social model of disability sees that what is disabling about a disability is how society treats disabled people. There aren’t ramps and elevators for wheelchair users. There aren’t enough people who know signed languages or Braille. Videos don't come with quality captions and audio description. Etc.

(image from here)

The Medical and Social Models of Intersex

The medical model of intersex is analogous to the medical model of disability. Being intersex is seen as disorder that needs to be cured. The terms disorder and difference of sexual development (DSD) are sometimes used by people who think of intersex this way. This is the dominant model that most people in Western society use to think about intersex, and similar to how the disability rights movement is resistant to the medical model, intersex people as a community want our medical model to lose its dominance.

The social model of intersex is similarly analogous to the social model of disability. It sees intersex variations as natural bodily variations. What sucks about being intersex is the intersexism - the stigma, discrimination, isolation, and shame that surrounds being intersex; the fetishization of intersex bodies (usually ambiguous genitals); the medical violence/trauma that comes from being coerced into gender-conforming treatments; and so on.

Authority and Gatekeeping

The two models have different epistemic implications, i.e, whose knowledge is important and valid. The medical model places (perisex) doctors and biologists as the authorities on intersex. Being intersex is a result of medical diagnosis, and doctors are the gatekeepers.

The social model places actually intersex people as authoritative, and what emerges from intersex communities is less emphasis on diagnosis and more emphasis on how your bodily variations have affected your life experiences.

And once you get people talking about life experiences and failing to meet a perinormative standard, it becomes apparent that common diagnoses like PCOS and gynecomastia are frequently associated with the same sorts of life experiences that people with diagnoses that everybody agrees are intersex.

For intersex people, having intersex be a big tent is an advantage. We suffer from isolation so terribly. Having more people in the community helps break that isolation. And having more community means more ability to mobilize against harmful practices like IGM.

Edit to add: the social/experiential aspect of being intersex is one of many reasons why intersex people react negatively to non-binary people saying they want to "transition to intersex".

The Futures We Want

For social model folks like me, the ideal future is that intersex people are accepted, respected, given considerate medical care that respects bodily autonomy, and given access to safe and inclusive community.

In contrast, medicalists think the ideal future is that there are no intersex people, because we have all been “cured”.

This is part of why so few intersex people find out their diagnosis is an intersex variation from their doctor (if they're even lucky enough to get and be told their diagnosis). This contributes to why so many intersex people don't figure out we're intersex until adulthood. Giving patients a label to help find social support and organize politically for better conditions just isn’t something in the mental toolkit of somebody who is stuck in the medical model.

Where The TERFs Come In

The medical model encourages the intersex community to stay fractured into different diagnoses, and to view us as rare anomalies.

This is why TERFS and other transphobes love the medical model of intersex. They cannot handle the idea of intersex being common. They need it to be rare so they peddle their narrative that biological sex is simple.

Even though the biology is clear that sex is really complicated and there is no clear line between male and female, and a whole bunch of middle ground, the anti-trans lobby isn't willing to listen.

To them, there is no middle ground. There is instead two separate categories - male and female - and with each categories you have a tiny subset of "disordered males" and "disordered females".

This is why we see anti-trans posters trying to sow doubt about POCS as intersex. PCOS is common. It affects primarily women. And recognizing hyperandrogenism PCOS as intersex is a direct threat to their messaging about sex and gender.

Summary

The medical model contributes to so much of the intersexism that intersex people face, notably from the anti-trans lobby and from doctors. We suffer from seen as being broken/disordered, from coercive medical interventions, and from the isolation that comes from being told you're uniquely broken. The social model allows actually intersex people to be seen as the authorities on intersex; and for us to find community, healing, and political power.

#intersex #social model of intersex #social model of disability #medicalism #pcos #hyperandrogenism #biology of sex #transphobia

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disabledunitypunk · 1 year

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A Conversation About Demedicalization and Disorders

Let's talk about demedicalization. What is demedicalization? The Open Education Sociology Dictionary defines demedicalization as "The process by which a behavior or condition, once labeled 'sick', becomes defined as natural or normal." It is the process of normalizing a trait of the body or brain or behavior as a normal variance of human existence, rather than a pathological variance in need of treatment or correction.

Put simply, it is no longer looking at something as a sickness in need of treatment, but rather just another way of existing.

Some background info that is needed: the social and medical models of disability.

The medical model posits that the existence of disability is predicated on inherent pathological differences in the bodymind, that it is active physical limitations, some of which can be treated or "corrected", that make a person disabled.

The social model, on the other hand, states that is is a societal lack of access and accommodations that disables a person, and that a person would no longer be functionally disabled were these access barriers to be removed. Keep in mind that this does not mean they believe that people would not still have "impairments" that affect how they are able to function, but that it defines disability as the disadvantages caused by an ableist society treating impairments as needing to be "fixed" rather than accommodated. I defines being abled as being able to participate in society to the full extent an impaired individual wishes to.

I believe in a mixed social-medical model. I believe that some conditions are inherently disabling and that seeking medical treatment for them, while it should be up to disabled individuals, is helpful and good. My ADHD, for example, will still limit my participation in society to the extent I want to, without medication. You could consider medication an accommodation, but there's also the example of my chronic pain and fatigue and POTS that often keeps me housebound or bedbound. There may not be a treatment for that, and I cannot fully participate in the world around me because of that.

"Ultimately, the social model of disability proposes that a disability is only disabling when it prevents someone from doing what they want or need to do."

I am actively prevented from doing what I want or need to do by an inherent feature of my body that no amount of accommodation can allow for. However, some of my conditions would not be disabling with proper accommodation - my autism, for example, I don't generally consider disabling because the people and structures around me DO accommodate for it.

So why is demedicalization helpful or necessary, and how is is applied?

Well, three psychological examples: autism, psychosis, and schizophrenia.

Autism is currently, in the DSM, called autism spectrum disorder. However, autism is a neurotype, and many autistic people do not feel that autism inherently causes them distress or dysfunction, and is therefore not disordered. That is why many of us call ourselves autistic people or say we have autism, rather than ASD. There has been a push for years for the diagnosis itself to be changed to not contain the word "disorder", and to allow for informed self-diagnosis.

Informed self-diagnosis is also an important part of demedicalization, especially of neurodivergence. It says "someone doesn't need a doctorate to know themselves and their own experiences well enough to categorize and classify them. Good research and introspection is enough to trust a person to make the call, and labeling oneself as a specific kind of neurodivergence is harmless, even if they later find out they were wrong.

Psychosis is the next example. There is a growing movement that I've talked about before: the pro-delusion movement. Not everybody experiences distressing delusions, and even when they are distressing, this movement says that only the individual experiencing them has the right to decide whether they should be encouraged or discouraged. It states that it is a violation of autonomy to nonconsensually reality check (tell someone their delusions are not reality) someone, and that as long as a person is not harming others, they can do as they like with their delusions.

This is an example of demedicalization. Treating delusions as something not to be suppressed with medication or ignored or "treated" or "fixed", but as simply another, morally and "healthily neutral" way of existing outside homogenous neurotypical norms.

Finally plurality. Now what's key here is that demedicalization does not mean saying a thing can NEVER be disordered. In fact, that's why I made this post. I saw someone the other day say that they felt their aromantic identity was disordered. Initially, I balked, thinking they were internally arophobic, but I listened to what they had to say. Essentially, they expressed that the identity was never inherently disordered, but that it caused them distress and dysfunction and so they experienced it as such, and crucially, that wasn't a morally bad thing or something they felt they had to correct.

Because here's I think what gets left out of discussions on demedicalization: demedicalization also means no longer treating disorders as something that inherently have to be treated or fixed, that disorders can simply exist as they are if the person with a disorder so chooses; and that anything can be labeled a disorder if it causes distress and dysfunction without being inherently disordered AND without needing to be treated.

And conversely, this means that if you experience something as disordered, demedicalizing it means that you do not have to meet an arbitrary categorical set of requirements to seek treatment, but can do so based on self-reported symptoms. Treatment cannot be gatekept behind a diagnosis that only a "qualified professional" can assign you.

This means if someone wants to, they can label their autism as disordered, but it is never forced on anyone. If someone feels ANY identity - neurodivergent, disabled, queer, alterhuman, paraphilia, whatever - is disordered, they can label it as such, but they also don't have to. There are no requirements to follow through with "treating" anything you label a disorde, either. No strings attached, just the right to self-determination and the right to autonomy hand in hand,

So, back to plurality. You essentially end up with three aspects of demedicalization. You have nondisordered plurality being normalized, you have dissociative disorders that systems can choose not to pursue treatment for without judgment or coercion, and you have disordered systems that can pursue treatment for dissociative symptoms without receiving a difficult-to-access diagnosis. Based on their experiences, they can choose to label themselves as having DID, OSDD, UDD, or related disorders, or to forgo the label and simply seek treatment for whatever distress or dysfunction the disorder is causing.

"But without a specific diagnosis, what if they pursue the wrong treatment and it harms them?"

This is where the importance of recognizing self-reported symptoms as valid comes in. If an OSDD-1b system that hasn't labeled themselves or receives a diagnosis reports that they don't experience amnesia, they won't receive treatment for amnesia.

And since symptoms can mask, if a DID system reports not experiencing amnesia, they simply do not become aware of it or receive treatment for it before they are ready, which is a good thing because recognizing certain symptoms before you are ready to deal with them can be destabilizing and dangerous. More awareness of dissociative disorders will also make it easier for systems to adequately recognize those symptoms, and this isn't saying that someone else can't suggest it to the system experiencing it. It's simply saying the person experiencing a disorder takes the lead and is centered as the most important perspective.

I consider myself to have several disorders and several forms of nondisordered neurodivergence. My BPD is disordered but I am not treating it because I have healthy coping skills already. Same with my schizophrenia. My narcissism, on the other hand, is simply a neurotype. My plurality is both - the plurality itself isn't disordered, but I do have DID on top of it.

A last example, this one physical, of demedicalization: intersex variations. The intersex community has been pushing to recognize that intersex variations are natural variations in human sex, and not medical conditions that need corrected. This doesn't mean that any unpleasant symptoms related to an intersex variation can't ever be treated - in fact, it's important to the community to have that bodily autonomy to access whatever reproductive healthcare is needed - but it does mean treating our sexes as inherently normal and NOT trying to coercively "correct" them.

So in summary, demedicalization is fundamentally about autonomy. It is about considering natural human variations as such, rather than as sickness to be cured, about letting people determine for themselves whether any aspect of themselves is disordered, and the decision on whether or not to pursue treatment for anything being theirs alone. It is about trusting people to be reliable witnesses and narrators of their own subjective internal experiences, and about never forcing anyone to change any aspects of themselves, disordered or not, that aren't harming others. In short, it is about putting power back into the hands of disabled people. And that is what this blog is all about.

#unitypunk #long post #demedicalization #autonomy #social model of disability #medical model #disorders #intersex #self diagnosis

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intersex-support · 2 years

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Something that I want people to understand when thinking about whether intersex is a medical condition or a social identity is that those two things are not always different.

Intersex people have been pathologized, restricted, and repressed so much that our regular bodily needs are seen as defects; that is to say reproductive and hormonal needs of dyadic people are more studied and focused on, and even normalized while intersex needs are not. This has to do with how different bodies are seen and treated culturally.

A lot of the time I see people either outright denying we are disabled because our bodies are “natural”, or saying that we have medical conditions and are defected. Both of these statements are ableist and imply that there is something inherently wrong with disabled people, not the constructed world around us which creates inaccessibility.

In my opinion, we need to start looking at the social model of disability and applying that to our understanding of what intersex is. We are a group of people with physical needs that are highly impacted by societal perception of us (which is why our oppression is influenced by both homophobia and transphobia). We can’t deny that cultural and social perceptions impact the way intersex health and wellness is approached.

Rethink why you think a persons body is “defected” just because it has different needs, look into the social model of disability and understand that cultural perception has the power to disable people. I am not disabled because of my body, I am disabled because the systems that are supposed to help me refuse to prioritize my body or see me as equal to dyadic people.

#mod stev #actuallyintersex #disability #social model of disability #intersex

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trans-axolotl2 · 1 year

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"Alison Kafer's (2013,4) 'political/relational model" (P/R model) of disability is particularly well suited to leaving room for such complexities and lived realities...First, the P/R model underlines that anti-essentialist arguments about sexual 'ambiguity' and disorder are socially and relationally constructed. Second, the P/R model reframes and politicizes conversations about the disability and impairing effects of curative violence that many intersex people live with. For instance, reconsider Morris's observation that 'not having a vagina was not my problem; having to get one was.' Although the effects of 'having to get one' are not explicitly outlined, extending this line of reasoning is judicious given that so many intersex people testify to the disabling consequences of curative violence. The 'problem' of having to get a vagina (or penis) too often involves then living with various short-and/ or long-term impairments, pain, or disabilities. Third, using the P/R model to acknowledge impairments can recalibrate one's relationship with intersex people who want medical intervention because, for instance, their intersex traits, in and of themselves, cause impairments, disabilities, distress, or dysphoria. "

-Celeste Orr, Cripping Intersex

#actuallyintersex #intersex #disability studies #disability #political relational model #intersex studies

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beechersnope · 24 days

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on the absolute worst episode of house

#(intersex teenage model)

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sunkern-plus · 3 months

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why is it when they show a character "glowing up"/"growing up" they give the character sudden curves (as in wide hips visible breasts no matter the size slim waist) as if people who have gone through puberty can't come out squarish and "masculine" even without t (in a typically afab case) or even after years of e or progesterone (a typically transfeminine or nonbinary trans but on e case)

#misogyny for ts #transmisogyny for ts #this always bugged me #for example sakura kasugano suddenly becoming more traditionally curvy in her model for street fighter v #and hell even as early as street fighter iv #when canonically she's the type of girl who's so frequently mistaken for a boy #that even dan prior to sakura ganbaru in a street fighter alpha prequel comic to that called her 'little boy'#(again. leads to the 'sakura is a trans girl or transfeminine and intersex camab' theory i have but sfv had to throw that out the window)

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hellagator · 1 year

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