May 17th is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia!
(Image description: an intersex inclusive progress pride flag with a transparent white square in the center, text inside the square reads “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia”; above this is the date “May 17th, 2022” and below are the words “Take a stand against hatred and queerphobia.”)
(Image description: a progress pride flag with a transparent square in the center, black text inside the square reads “National Honor Our LGBTQIA+ Elders Day” and the date “May 16th, 2022).
(ID: eight images with pastel rainbow backgrounds, there are black curved lines bordering each corner and black text in the center of every image; the text reads 1) “transgender and pro-choice”, 2) “include trans people in your abortion rights advocacy”, 3) “pro-choice and childfree without apology”, 4) “bodily autonomy is a human right”, 5) “this isn’t gods will you’re just an asshole”, 6) “not subject to the rules of your religion”, 7) “my body my life my future my choice”, 8) “forced pregnancy is torture”.)
(Image description: six square images with purple backgrounds and white borders, every image has bold white text in the center. All together this text reads: “I don’t care if testosterone therapy makes me sterile. I am allowed to live a life that does not revolve around childbearing or parenthood. I do not have to prioritize childbearing or parenthood in my life. My bodily autonomy and freedom of choice are worth more than potential fertility. I don’t give a fuck what you believe my "biological purpose” is. This body is mine to do with as I will.“)
Possibly controversial, but I don’t care if testosterone therapy makes me sterile.
I’m allowed to live a life that does not revolve around possible future childbearing or parenthood. My own bodily autonomy and freedom of choice are worth more than potential fertility.
I don’t care what anyone believes my "biological purpose” is. My body is not your “earthen vessel”. I am not here to “be fruitful and multiply”. I don’t want to join your womban only arts and crafts circle and finger-paint with period blood. I don’t have to find any kind of special meaning or spiritual significance in the reproductive organs that I was born with.
The only reason I am here right now with this body that is mine is to do whatever I want with it.
I’m allowed to not want pregnancy and childbirth, or the possibility of them. I’m allowed to not want parenthood in any form. I don’t have to prioritize those things in my life.
The potential loss of my fertility on testosterone is not a loss for me, it is a benefit. For more than half of my life now I’ve known that I never want to experience pregnancy or childbirth, and yet I am clearly expected to value my potential ability to do those things above my own actual wants and needs? No chance.
No trans person should be required to delay medically transitioning because of concerns about future fertility, if the trans person themselves isn’t concerned with the ability to have biological children.
I resent the notion that medically transitioning is harmful because we’re–allegedly–choosing to sterilize ourselves*. Choosing sterilization is not harmful. The ability to choose sterilization should be the right of every person, regardless of gender, who is of an age capable of reproducing.
(*Contrary to popular belief, testosterone therapy is not a contraceptive and does not always result in a person being sterile; it is entirely possible for a person to become pregnant while using testosterone therapy or after stopping it.)
Asexuality is a sexual orientation where a person experiences little to no sexual attraction to anyone and/or does not experience desire for sexual contact.
Demisexuality is an orientation where a person can only experience sexual attraction if a strong emotional bond is present. Demisexuality is often considered a type of gray-asexuality.
Gray-asexuality is an orientation where a person finds that asexuality describes a lot of their experiences, but that it doesn’t fit perfectly. Someone who is gray-asexual may experience sexual attraction rarely, only under specific circumstances.
The term asexual spectrum encompasses all of the identities related to asexuality, including asexuality itself, demisexuality, and gray-asexuality. The word ace is a shorthand for the identities that fit within the asexual umbrella, and may also be used to describe a person who identifies with the asexual umbrella.
(Image description: four images in pink, yellow, and orange shades. The text on the images reads: “Lesbians who prefer gender neutral pronouns are wonderful. Lesbians who prefer neopronouns are wonderful. Lesbians who prefer he/him pronouns are wonderful. Genderqueer and nonbinary lesbians are wonderful.”)
Since this blog is on a “break” and I came across this blessed post, here’s some lesbian positivity from a nonbinary person trying to figure out imps sexuality!! >×<
