Ok, I'm Getting Confused Again And I Want To See Trans People's General Opinion On It Cause You Lot Are

My experience with transness is a really good example of how transandrophobia does not target just transmascs.

I identified as transmasc, then transfemmasc, and finally transfem (I am also nonbinary) after getting my intersex body confirmed. When I am able to, my transition will not include estrogen. It will include testosterone. My body literally cannot take excess estrogen because I have tried before and the side effects were horrible.

I cannot even risk any attempt at DIY HRT for my own safety due to my proximity to law enforcement in my personal life and the fact that testosterone is a controlled substance. I might not get it perscribed even if I lied and claimed I was cis- because my age and hormone levels lead doctors to try to raise my estrogen levels to basically make me fertile despite my hypoestrogenism and the side effects of trying to directly raise my estrogen. I'll be subject to "You might change your mind" constantly.

But the people who use "transmasc" to mean "Trans people who take testosterone and have gendered experiences that are masculine or are men" leave out people like me when I am very much impacted by the same problem- I just have a different label I use for myself.

Use "People who take testosterone" if you are specifically talking about groups that take testosterone or plan to. Not all of us are transmasculine or trans men.

I feel like nobody on Tumblr knows that the international space station is being discontinued.

Did you know that? In less than a decade it will be gone

CNN Link from above screenshot

More detailed article by Space.com

stop calling the arrested guy the shooter. stop laundering the cops' narrative. the man who was arrested is a suspect until proven otherwise.

ten brownie points if you get the reference

i don't care how uncomfortable you are around cis men, queer cis men still need places to go, and sometimes, those spaces will be shared with yours. disabled and neurodivergent queer men and queer men of color especially need a place to go. the queer community isn't the "fuck cis men" community. that is the rad fem community. if you think cis men and people who read as cis men are inherently "too scary" or shouldn't be allowed in queer spaces, you joined the wrong community.

LOOK!! LOOK AT THEM

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always drawing the daintier guy in a gay ship as trans is not the allyship or trans rep you think it is

ditto for always making one part of every gay ship trans. especially as a cis straight woman.

You can tell if someone's actually pro intersex liberation by seeing their reaction to the phrase "abolish the sex binary" Yes I said sex. Like biological sex. It's not binary.

A study just came out from Harvard about how gender affirming surgeries are more commonly performed on "cisgender men/boys" than transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people.

But these men/boys have gynecomastia which, if they were born with it (and the study doesn't specify), they're not just "cisgender".

They're intersex.

How many times now have intersex people told us perisex (non-intersex) people to stop using the statistics of their surgeries just as trans talking points, while erasing intersex people on the whole?

We have no idea how many of those surgeries were forced, or coerced, onto these intersex people. Either from doctors, parents, or even societal pressure.

Perisex trans people need to do better. We have to be better allies to intersex people than this. It disgusts me just how much we have failed our own community, time and time again.

UPDATE

The study actually specifically excluded intersex people.

"Importantly, all surgical procedures among patients with indications of differences in sex development or patients with other medical indications for surgery (eg, cancer, injury) were excluded..."

I'm happy to see this particular study has taken care to exclude intersex people, since surgeries done on them cannot be compared to transgender surgeries, but please bear in mind that this is still just one study.

The horrible truth is that medical abuse against our intersex siblings is still heavily normalized within the medical industry. From using terms like DSD, to forcing kids and even BABIES into sexual binaries with non or dubiously consensual surgeries or HRT, these horrors that intersex people have to go through are all too normal for them. That's unacceptable.

If you have reblogged this post without this update, I urge you to delete that reblog and reblog this version instead. We can fight for intersex rights and (if you're also perisex) show our solidarity without spreading misinformation.

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