Hiatus

this has got to be the weirdest thread people pull at.

"800 years ago, in a language neither of us speak, before there was a solidified idea of Sex, some people used the word baeddel to refer to a broad and ill defined class of all social undesirables outside the acceptable bounds of gender and sexuality in pre-magna carta England, and that group included intersex people; thus it is a slur that you are not allowed to say"

Honestly from what I've looked into the best modern approximation of the medieval use of the word "baeddel" is "faggot" but that's a big leap because the contexts are so profoundly different.

And now there’s a cis woman with slightly raised hormones, but is still a woman, and has been AFAB, and raised a woman, and identifies as a woman, and the only reason anyone knows about her intersex characteristics is because her medical history was illegal leaked…and suddenly she’s not a woman. Which means that other intersex women, women with PCOS, women with hormone imbalances (which is commen af for menopausal women), also aren’t women. 

Every so often a movement will trip up over the curtains and reveal the actual truth behind something. Terfs sprout a lot of bullshit about protecting “real” women, and preserving womanhood, and how womanhood is this holy thing. If you belief what they say, then you might be under the impression that they care about womanhood the most out of every other section of feminism.

But then the curtains come down and you see that womanhood is defined as being “like them”, and if you aren’t like them then you just aren’t a woman. You can be cis and excel in your field at an international level, but if you can’t conform to be like them then you’re not a woman, but rather something to be hated. It’s intense, intense misogyny, and why terfs will always walk hand-in-hand with conservatives. Because for all of their cheap supporting “real women” talk, the second they can find the same use of rhetoric to shit on the marginalised then they will. 

Don’t mention in your pride month posts what /you/ think the consensus is because either way you’re wrong. “The general consensus intersex people have is-” stop. There is no consensus. LGBT intersex people are consistently discussing this and the weight behind this discussion.

“Intersex advocates are rejoicing at a paper released by three former US Surgeons General. The surgeon-generals called for an end to forced medical surgeries on young intersex people.

Dr Joycelyn Elders, Dr David Satcher and Dr Richard Carmona were the 15th to 17th Surgeons General respectively.

The three condemned genitoplasty and other procedures, which are often performed on infants with intersex traits.

Intersex advocates, human rights groups and even the World Health Organization recognize ‘corrective surgery’ can cause more harm than good.

The paper comes as a new study revealed people who did not have forced surgery grew up without predicted problems.

The French study found ‘so far no major concerns have been reported from patients and their families’ and ‘with appropriate medical care and psychological support, it is possible to defer genital surgery’.

it’s been like two years since we’ve talked about this i guess, but we did talk about it before, i promise

iirc one of the reasons is because we don’t agree with all of OII’s stances but I don’t really recall what their stances are

I know not everyone likes the stripes flag, I personally have been saying for a while that I think every intersex individual can use the one they prefer (and ideally that allies trying to make icons etc should make both options available? I talked abt this for a bit a while back but I don’t remember if it was here or on my blog) but I know stronger opinions have been voiced by this blog in the past. anyway i wouldn’t really say the stripes flag has been ‘replaced’ since a lot of people still use and prefer it

it’s been like two years since we’ve talked about this i guess, but we did talk about it before, i promise

iirc one of the reasons is because we don’t agree with all of OII’s stances but I don’t really recall what their stances are

I know not everyone likes the stripes flag, I personally have been saying for a while that I think every intersex individual can use the one they prefer (and ideally that allies trying to make icons etc should make both options available? I talked abt this for a bit a while back but I don’t remember if it was here or on my blog) but I know stronger opinions have been voiced by this blog in the past. anyway i wouldn’t really say the stripes flag has been ‘replaced’ since a lot of people still use and prefer it