#intersex
I know I’ve been away for a little while. Mostly because I’ve burnt myself out and my messaging doesn’t work for some reason. However I have been busy putting together a collection for pride month of pride and anime embroideries. I’ve also opened an Etsy to sell these embroideries to afford my HRT and a new binder (My old one is falling apart). I’ll be selling t-shirts, patches, hoops, and face masks on my Etsy ThreadyToGoDesign. It would mean a lot for you to check it out and if you like something I’ve kept my rates low to make them affordable. This has been my passion project and I’d love to share it with you!
If you’re interested tell a friend! Patches have free shipping and everything else has reduced shipping rates so it’ll get to you quickly. And if you’re in the US and spend over 35$ you get free shipping! So check me out, I’d really love it!
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Gentle reminder that memes and inside jokes relating to human identity, such as race, gender, sexuality, ableness, neurodivergency, etc. don’t always apply to everyone in that ingroup, and if you don’t relate to all the fun jokes in a community, your identity is still valid. People are complex and one person with that identity may not share the same experiences and feelings as another. I think that makes every person so special and a point to be celebrated.
![When thinking about intersex/trans/GNC people, [tongue in cheek] I disagree with some whose work I l](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c071d3f6bdb31ff8d5202ff1d1824111/tumblr_p2v37fefwQ1uisfeqo1_1280.jpg "When thinking about intersex/trans/GNC people, [tongue in cheek] I disagree with some whose work I l")
When thinking about intersex/trans/GNC people, [tongue in cheek] I disagree with some whose work I look up to greatly, such as Eli Clare’s scholarship on disability, and believe we indeed need to work together to find a cure [/tongue in cheek]. It’s beyond time we invent a joint-cure for this useless and diseased binary society and it’s sick and unfit social engineers – those within the Medical Industrial Complex who perform harmful non-consensual “normalizing” procedures on intersex/trans/GNC kids such as Dr. Earl Cheng, a pediatric urologist at @luriechildrens who still defends and performd clitorecromies on intersex kids. Comment below other names of people in the Medical Industrial Complex who we need to cure. It’s time we #CUREtheMIC
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#intersex #intersexstories #intersexisbeautiful #toocutetobebinary #nonbinary #trans #gnc #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtqi #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt #medicalindustrialcomplex #humanrights (at Chicago, Illinois)
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Seen this yet? Link in bio :)
Ash and I did a collab and it’s up! https://youtu.be/PIRTl9au3PM
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Featuring as a guest on @nancypodcast live in Chicago this weekend at a really beautiful old school theatre (in my hometown) is definitely up there on my list of “favorite things about being an intersex educator & activist!” As the year wraps up, I’d like to remind everyone that no matter what they tell you – sex and gender are not mutually exclusive and they’re definitely NOT binary. Our society needs to keep chugging along towards understanding that everything is complex, and our bodies and genders are not exempt. Once society says goodbye to its current obsession with a binary way of viewing sex and gender (which has its roots the colonizer’s worldview that was forced upon Native Americans), then I believe we all take one giant step forward towards the collective liberation we all are fighting for (especially queer, trans, GNC, & intersex people). If you’d like to book me to speak, show my short documentary, consult your high school’s biology department, keynote, or give a workshop…please don’t hesitate to send me an email [email protected] (link in bio). I’m currently beginning to book 2018 dates as we speak, and would love to visit you wherever youre are. (P.S. In 2017 I manifested that I wanted make intersex awareness my full-time gig with a secondary goal of trying to speak at more medical colleges and hospitals. Thanks to Rush University, UIC College of Medicine and UW-Milwaukee’s School of Nursing I have begun to see the realization of that intention. In 2018, I want to manifest a few more things: 1. Speak and show my film to more clinicians/Nurses and medical students. 2. Build on the success of our small yet mighty group: Intersex People of Color for Justice (and collaborate on more actions and protests at Childrens’ Hospitals). 3. Begin to lay the groundwork necessary to purchase a home one day for my dog Callie and I Thank you for all your support, love, and guidance along the way! ▪️ beautiful photos cc: @loveandstrugglephotos •
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#✨ #intersexstories #intersex #lgbt #collegespeaker #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #gender #genderqueer #intersexisbeautiful #nb #trans #lgbtq #keynotespeaker #keynotepresenter #collegepresenter (at The Athenaeum Theatre - Chicago)
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Today’s Intersex Awareness Day! Come out at noon to protest Lurie Children’s Hospital at 225 E Chicago Ave. Look for this banner :) Make sure to use #LurieEndSurgery ❤️ oh, and don’t forget, our “extreme position” is that we demand Lurie ends medically unnecessary genital surgeries on #intersex children.
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#intersexawarenessday #intersexawarenessday2#iad2017 #iad #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbt #nonbinary #trans #queer
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![[First photo were screaming: #FuckYoSurgery] Last night, people from all across the city (and countr](https://64.media.tumblr.com/638a49d846a041e5f78caa255237c842/tumblr_oye43nwwIw1uisfeqo1_1280.jpg "[First photo were screaming: #FuckYoSurgery] Last night, people from all across the city (and countr")
[First photo were screaming: #FuckYoSurgery] Last night, people from all across the city (and country) came together at the wonderful amazing @plusgallerychicago (support them w/ meetings & events!) and we drank tea, created banners/signs, and talked about why we support intersex people having the right to make THEIR OWN decisions about THEIR OWN bodies when it comes to hormones, gonadal and genital surgeries. Tomorrow, on Intersex Awareness Day, we’re bringing those banners, signs and our voices directly to one of the culprit’s doorsteps: Lurie Children’s Hospital (who’s Sex Development Program is still performing medically unnecessary surgeries!) located at 225 E. Chicago Ave at 12 noon. We need you there to support this growing movement. There’s a link in my bio with all the info about this specific demonstration. Thank you so much to everyone who came out last night. Special shoutout to youth of @mujereslatinasenacci for participating. I love you all very very much. Photos cc: @loveandstrugglephotos #LurieEndSurgery #endintersexsurgery
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#intersex #intersexstories #intersexawareness #intersexawarenessday #intersexawarenessmonth #intersexawarenessday2017 #iad2017 #iad #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbt #lgbtq #nonbinary #queer #gay #queeraf #gayaf #humanrights (at Plus Gallery Chicago)
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I know that a lot of issues surrounding intersex healthcare involve a lack of information about our bodies (on both our parts and on the part of doctors) and concerns about forced “treatments” that traumatize and harm us. It’s so obvious why over-medicalization of intersex people and forced procedures are harmful.
But like … I’ve been thinking about how I was raised recently. I was raised by Appalachian-descended folks, direct survivors of the Great Depression and their kids, in a rural place. I went undiagnosed with a lot of obvious stuff from childhood because nobody in my family trusted doctors or medicine, or would even have known what was going on with me, and if they did they never would have admitted it. They’d never listen to doctors or teachers who suggested there might be anything “wrong” with me, because they didn’t trust those authorities. And in all honesty, the doctors we had around weren’t very good at all.
As a result, I went undiagnosed and untreated for a lot. Looking back, in all honesty, I could have been put on puberty blockers if we’d known I was going through it way too early. I knew something was “wrong” with me, that I was different, and other people pointed it out and it was horrible and humiliating and I had dysphoria from being in the middle of a very visible puberty at 9 years old. I WISH I could have been put on puberty blockers! I wish anyone around me had the knowledge or resources to have done that for me! Precocious puberty caused me to have more severe scoliosis, a height-related disability, and a lot of emotional trauma. But I didn’t have options for a different reason than people normally talk about.
Usually we’re forced into treatments, coerced into them, have them hidden from us. Agency is denied to intersex people through forcing our decisions. But for me, I was denied agency because the treatment options weren’t there at all when I would have actually wanted some of them. I didn’t have anything forced on me so much as I didn’t even know I had the option to stop what was going on in the first place, and nobody told me it wasn’t normal or took me to the doctor or anything. And even if they *had* taken me to the doctor, I wasn’t in a place where we had great healthcare and I doubt anyone would have been well-educated enough to handle it. If I had been given the chance, I absolutely would have wanted to use puberty blockers so I didn’t start getting body hair at age 8. Nobody even said anything when I asked about my body, so I felt like an alien among every not-yet-pubescent kid in my elementary school. I knew I was different, and at the same time I didn’t have any clear idea how or why, and nobody else did either.
I think class is something that factors into the ways intersexism plays out, and I just don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about this before? Idk. Throwing it out there.
intersex dysphoria is your estrogen and testosterone battling for dominance and shifting the distribution of your body fat constantly so every other month or so you realize your clothes don’t fit the same and you can just never quite feel comfortable in anything
it’s also considering if maybe you should just “pick one” and go on some kind of HRT one way or the other, but feeling dysphoria at even the thought because you want your hormones just how they are despite it being an increasing pain in the ass
it’s also realizing you walk a hormonal tightrope and it’s scary to think of what problems might get worse if you decide to fall to one side or another, and deciding that walking the middle and not disturbing things is probably just safer
like probably
but also like hell am i messing with my hormones, im too schizo/bipolar for that shit, i’ll just learn to navigate them doing whatever they want
whyisthisfrenchguymasturbating:
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Gottem!
i went to fact check this and he literally is
fuck them up philip
I just witnessed a murder
I have an issue with this post and Philip Batterham’s comment.
I’m going to preface this by saying I have a Bachelor’s in Human Genetics and I now work in research ethics, correcting or retracting incorrect or ethically unsound science for publishers.
Now you guys can’t verify that because I am not willing to dox myself. But what you can verify, as a one commenter did above, is that Philip Batterham is President of the International Genetics Federation. I love a good fact check and I’m glad someone checked he was not talking out of his arse regarding his position. Unfortunately, they stopped scrolling when they saw his name and title on that page though because if they saw his publications they would see he is NOT a researcher in human genetics, either in development or disease. His expertise is in fact insecticides and their impact on the genetics of pests as shown by his numerous publications in the field which are listed beneath the introductory paragraph where he is identified as President of the International Genetics Federation.
I looked through his publication history and I could not find one paper related to human development or disease, even with a look to study in another organism and translate that knowledge to humans.
Could he have a personal interest in this field rather than professional? Sure, but he’s touting out his professional position so he can present as an expert on an issue of developmental biology, or at least more of an expert than a pediatrician.
Now admittedly, I don’t know what this pediatrician is saying because a link to the video was not included. But to fact check what Philip Batterham has said in his comment: yes, it is possible to have XY chromosomes and develop female genitalia. This is because the SRY gene which resides on the Y chromosomes acts as a ‘switch’ to change the body from developing the default female reproductive anatomy to that of male reproductive anatomy. If the SRY gene is damaged or missing from the Y chromosome then the 'switch’ is never flicked and that individual continues along the path of developing female genitalia.
HOWEVER! What Philip Batterham fails to mention is that this development is not the regular development women with XX chromosomes undergo. XY females have a condition called Swyer syndrome and it prevents normal puberty because it is important for normal female puberty to have two copies of some genes that are only on the X chromosome.
He doesn’t mention this. In fact I’d go as far to say he tries to hide this information by going in to mention intersex individuals as a if they are a different group of people at the end of his comment. XY females ARE intersex!
Now, as said before, you can’t fact check my credentials but you can fact check everything I just said. You can look at his publication history and look up all information about XY females and the SRY gene. And then you can make up your own mind about who would be more knowledgeable on a topic, a pediatrician or Philip Batterham. And if you’re still not sure, find the original video and look up the pediatrician. I am admittedly too lazy to do this and just wanted to highlight genetics is a big field and while I would never say to ignore experts on an issue, you should make sure they have the level of expertise they are claiming.
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Mauro Cabral is a trans man, trans activist, educator and social theorist. Cabral’s academic research focuses on the social theory underlying debates about sex change and intersex issues. He has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has been a member of IGLHRC´s International Advisory Council since 1999. He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee for CLAGS (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York), as well as an activist with RedTrans and the Working Group on Intersexuality. An author and translator of essays on trans and intersex issues, he lives in Córdoba, Argentina.
Mauro became the co-director of GATE – Global Action for Trans* Equality in January 2010. He has been involved with trans and intersex activism since 1995. From 2005 to 2007 he was in charge of coordinating the Trans and Intersex Area at IGLHRC Latin American Office. The following three years he worked at Mulabi – Latin American Space for Sexualities and Rights, starting as its Watchdogs Officer and occupying the Executive Director position during 2009.
During the last fifteen years most of Mauro’s work has been focused on lobbying, training and writing. Since 2004 he has regularly participated in political initiatives at the UN and in 2006 he was part of the expert’s group that elaborated the Yogyakarta Principles. In 2009 he compiled the book “Interdicciones. Escrituras de la intersexualidad en castellano”. This year he will finish his dissertation on juridical aspects of transsexuality and intersexuality within Argentinian Law.
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It’s OK to want enby/intersex on your ID!
There’s differing opinions on the benefit of having the option to choose non-binary or intersex identifiers on your identification documents (driver license, birth certificate, etc).
But this is a reminder that it’s totally fine if you are excited to change your documents! You do not contribute to your own oppression by seeking an avenue that is validating your identity.
rb to have a very gay 2022
