#intersex activism
I already said it once but I’m gonna say it again: here and now, in our time and age, babies that are born intersex get put under the knife in order to reshape (and sometimes completely remove) parts of their genitals just because they don’t fit into stereotypical definitions of male and female genitals! These babies are not sick. These babies won’t develope cancer or any other life threatening desease (even tho some doctors still tell these kind of lies to the baby’s parents). These babies are healthy and don’t need any kind of operations!
And these surgeries are HARMFUL!!! They are an unecassary risk! And will propably scar the intersex person emotionally and psychologically! How would you feel if you’d find out that you didn’t have a clit anymore because the doctors thought it looked too big and removed it completely?!?!?! How would you feel if you’d found out that you once had testicals but the doctors removed them ‘cause they thought it would be easier to make you look like a girl than a boy down there?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK??? This angers me so SO much!!!
Stop surgeries on intersex babies! It’s WRONG!
This is image 22 of my intersex body positivity series.
WHAT IS INTERSEX?
Intersex people are born with atypical sex characteristics: it relates to a range of variations in sex autonomy. That is, physical variations in chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals.
Many different forms of intersex exist; it is an umbrella term, rather than a single category. Some intersex people identify within a binary
gender system. Some see themselves outside of any binary - biological and identity wise.
For more info, go on YouTube an look for “What is Intersex? (Pt1)” by Hans Lindahl.
This series was made possible by the help, support and knowledge of these lovely intersex individuals (Instagram names):
@hihellohans,@flexitarianfam,@myintersexstory,@queeringqueering,@dysphoric.sweetie,@pilljar,@emotionell.png
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Perisex trans people the height of your allyship to intersex people cannot be tacking the I onto LGBT, you have to do *more*. Because as an intersex trans person it can be so fucking isolating in the trans community, intersex people are treated like analogies rather than people. Intersex people deserve better than being your proof as to why non-binary people exist. Not all intersex people are non-binary and you’re erasing their identities and objectifying them for Trans Disk Horse points. Or somehow acting like intersex people are lucky because they got to be “born non binary” (ya know, completely ignoring the forced surgeries and discrimination), ignoring the trauma we experience. Acting like cis intersex people somehow get treated better by other cis people and are “allowed” to be masc women/fem men while perisex trans people aren’t. Ignoring the unique dysphoria intersex people experience, cis or trans (dysphoria is not a Trans only thing!! It’s intersexist to say that!!) Perisex trans people calling us “birth defects” of our agab/cagab and telling us it can’t be an important part of our identity. Assigning afab/amab language to us and expecting us to have the same lives and dysphoria as other trans people. Acting like trans intersex people don’t fucking exist and can’t make arguments ourselves or speak for ourselves. Ignoring intersexism is careless at best and life threatening at worst. If there’s any perisex people who should be able to empathize with intersex people it’s perisex trans people. Our experiences overlap, and trans intersex people deserve a safe space. Trans intersex people are not hypothetical, we are real and we are silenced and erased from our own community. Do better!!
(Perisex/non-intersex ppl can and should reblog but don’t say anything)
Self reblogging Everytime it’s relevant which it ALWAYS IS
