Two protest sign sketches I did for Pride month, incase I don’t have ideas then.
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dysphoria? in both directions? at the same time? what is this, a crossover episode?
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Today’s guest reader is Wang.
So. I ended on time as I predicted. Here’s my thoughts on the chapter’s end. I found it funny that after Rei cut his hair, he looks even more feminine to me. He looks like a butch lesbian… So back when Slow Damage released, I know a lot of people were confused by Rei’s route. But now that I’ve understood more about our intersex conditions, I understand exactly how he feels. He’s amab, but he was bullied for his ambiguous appearance that lead to intense gender dysphoria and discrimination from his dad. Like before he even thought about his own gender, people were already saying he’s too feminine to be a man, so he gave up on deciding it for himself and just went along with the regressive thinking that others had.
In general this game exposes itself with a lot of misogyny too, like constantly asking what traits make a man as if that’s something women cannot possess? I don’t get it, but that’s what I’m upset about in Asian games in general. Their genders are so binary, that you are either men, women, or men who are women, but never women who are men. There’s no masc women representation in these medias, so I often see myself a lot in trans women representation. Because like.. the only time they ever depict a muscular woman is when that woman was a man. Really hammering that transphobia and misogyny in. I’m not gonna sugar coat it, because it’s the kind of environment I live in.
That’s why well, I’m like Rei because I don’t fit in my expected presentation either. In this society, a woman is dainty, feminine, caring, maybe even overzealous, and have the ability to be impregnated that they care so much about. It’s hard to escape that misogynistic system, whether you are assigned male or female. People completely cis could still experience gender dysphoria when it’s leveraged at them to police their gender expression. It’s oppression any way they do it.
You don’t have to agree with me on my take or anything. I’m just rambling on my own.
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Unless you’ve gotten tested to find out what your chromosomes are, you do not know what your chromosomes are. Period. Physical characteristics are not a reliable indicator. That is basic biology.
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Gonna transition into a woman and then a man, then a woman again, then a man and then a woman and then a man yet again so I can get transgender prestige points
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Procrastinating will weaken your desires to achieve your dreams.
Send that dm now. And become the next person to feel the magic wand of Estrogen.
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Perisex people can talk about their dysphoria and how they hate x trait because it makes them look like a man/woman or call themselves FTM/MTF but when intersex trans people do the same suddenly everyone’s a sex abolitionist
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Basically, an intersex person who has ambiguous genitalia can have genitals that include or resemble parts of both a penis and a vagina, but cannot have the functions of both in regards to, for example, reproduction, at least not at the same stage in life.
If a person has enough testosterone to support sperm production, then that would mean they can’t ovulate and/or support a pregnancy (at least not without external influence - on that front, I can’t find enough research to say definitively how that would work). If a person has enough estrogen to support ovulation and/or pregnancy, then that would mean they can’t produce sperm (again, without external influence).
There’s also the factor that intersex folks with ambiguous genitalia, in every instance I’ve heard of, their genitalia is not going to look like two sets of perisex genitalia put onto the same person as is illustrated in fictional bigenital characters. Maybe they have a clitorophallus vaginal opening, but they also have labiascrotum, not a vaginal opening located below the scrotum, for example. That’s not the only way that can happen, but it’s an example.
Let me know if there’s anything I got wrong or missed btw, it’s 1:30 in the morning and I’m more than a little tired TvT
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Question I’ve only seen once in my life and now it’s rolling around in my head long after I lost the post.
Why isn’t PCOS counted as intersex?
It basically boils down to “my body thinks I’m a guy so I end up with a bunch of altered things about my body and appearance because of it”
Like, I didn’t even have a very abnormal testosterone count but I did have the following:
- Body couldn’t decide if it wanted periods
- Deep voice (mostly natural, voice training via music barely affected it)
- Birth control did jack shit to fix it (abnormal reactions to BC are seemingly common with PCOS)
- Patches of skin that are rough/calloused in places where the average person wouldn’t think of (sternum)
- (This one could be genetics but I’m throwing it in here anyways) More masculine shaped body (broad shoulders, weird fat distribution that didn’t fully align to either side)
I’m not saying 100% this is an intersex thing, I’m just curious where the line between normal afab condition and you’re fucking intersex is, y'know?
Anyways if someone has input here that they can explain well, hit me up, imma go draw something for my partners and hope it’s mostly done by Tuesday.
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Some people really think that there is only one way to be trans
“I was born assigned as x and raised as x and then found my One True Gender, y, in which i desire to do y hormone and y surgery to not look like x”
And that’s it. No variations of this are valid in the eyes of exclusionists
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Idk why some people REFUSE to believe intersex people exist; people became so much more interesting to me when I started learning more about intersex individuals
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Hmmm.
Still researching into my variations (and possible other ones).
A unique difficulty in being trans and intersex (and specifically having started T long before I realised I am intersex) is that because I can’t remember what my genitals looked like pre-T (didn’t look much due to dysphoria) I am limited in certain aspects of intersex questioning. This means I have to rely on circumstantial things like tight fitting clothes causing chafage on what would become my tdick (I vaguely remember it being prominent/sticking out from labia) and evidence of androgenisation in other areas of the body pre-T (some very very scattered facial hairs, mainly end of the chin, one very long hair near my nose and several clustered around a birth mark on my cheek. Also pronounced Adam’s apple as a teen, lots of leg hair pre-T, very very small breasts (pre-top surgery. Possibly slightly tubular breasts too).
But also my discovery in December I have vulvar hypospadias and likely a sleeve hymen. There’s several pieces of a puzzle here that I’m trying to fit together. A lot of this seems to point towards some degree of androgenisation before I started gender affirming testosterone HRT (aged 22, I am now 25) - but these are all data points. I need to link things together, which can only be done with more information.
I’m adopted, which makes sourcing childhood records impossible. And I’m trans so doctors can be dismissive. But I want to know what is going on in my own body. But because none of these things are causing me medical issues (apart from the hypospadias) I’m likely to be turned away.
Hmm.
Either: I find a doctor willing to take me seriously and help me ascertain what’s what.
Or
I crowdsource information on here in the hopes that some pieces will finally begin sliding into place. (To this end, if anyone has any information about the traits I’ve mentioned please share! I’m at a loss trying to make head or tail of it all).
Much to think about
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Alright, so there’s this song out there that’s got soul to it and you can tell that unlike many of their other works, it was sung from the heart and has the potential to absolutely melt lots of hearts as well. I wanna give a shout out to the artist Ronald Pyatt for creating this absolute masterpiece of a song. The song’s name is Intersex. When you can, go give Ronald some love and show them support.
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It’s so fucking easy to just say vulva instead of “female anatomy” or some bullshit pro censorship term that I won’t even repeat because of how fucking stupid this shit is. Stop pretending like genitals are weird secret things that curse us if we dare to utter their name. We all have one and if ya don’t we’ve all seen one so stop being fucking weird and exclusionary and just say what you fucking mean. Plenty of women don’t have typical vulvas or don’t have them at all and plenty men have typical/atypical vulvas. We’re human there’s differences intersex people deserve to be apart of the conversation and not treated like a myth. It isn’t hard it isn’t weird it isn’t inappropriate I’m not asking you to kill someone just say what you mean. You’ll be fine you won’t traumatize a kid but forcing them to learn anything but their own anatomy will. So fucking grow up.
