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Actually. No. This reply pisses me off. I'm not gonna leave it and I'm gonna tell everyone right now what I would respond to this.

MALE AND FEMALE ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE CATEGORIES. PERIOD. Man and woman are not exclusive. And male and female are not exclusive. You cannot, in no certain terms, make a comprehensive list of what A Biological Man or Woman is without excluding or misgendering someone. Trans, cis, perisex or intersex.

We cannot continue to stand for this if we want to make it anywhere with intersex liberation and likewise with genuine actual queer liberation as well.

Sex is a spectrum.

We need to stop locking people into binaries like this. Everybody, every single person who feels that way, is allowed to identify as bigender. Any oc in the whole world is allowed to be bigender.

You can make that character be intersex, which means they have mixed sex characteristics that fall outside the binaristic way we define sexes into two. This can mean anything from chromosomal differences, body parts and hormones. Intersex traits are very diverse and varied and cannot always be nailed down to a single sex, because sex is a construct of physical traits we've assigned meaning to, which is often violently upheld by medical institutions to make intersex people more conformant looking. Intersex characters should exist too, because intersex people exist.

You can make that character be Cosexed / Dualsexed, a condition that means they possess both the reproductive organs needed to carry pregnancy or impregnate another individual. This is what some species of snails are. Hermaphrodite is a slur. I'm not censoring it this time because I want every single person who reads this to see it. The intersex community at large opposes the use of this slur, even in scientific contexts. There are loads of other, more useful, less historically loaded terms. (note that this is for fantasy and/or nonhuman characters, because people wrongly conflate being intersex as "having both parts", which is not what it means. Intersex is an umbrella term).

Because representation matters. Because how we talk about these things matters. Because information matters. Because gender - AND SEX diversity is normal, beautiful and should be allowed. The gender binary and sex binary both need to be deconstructed as they're both harmful.

inspired by @baguettenjoyer's recent fic (here) and @dragon-spaghetti 's art (here)

ID: a yellow and black plastic cable cover which is approximately 5-10cm tall with steep sides and looks like a small speed bump /end ID

Every time I go over one I need someone to help hold my chair and get me over it safely. Even with that support it hurts like Hell and has caused whiplash injuries for me in the past. It’s also very unsafe for others because even with support I cannot 100% control the angle my chair will end up lurching over it (and my chair weighs over 150kg without me in it so it’s not something you want to collide with). It’s also terrifying and makes noises that make me very concerned for my chair’s structural integrity.

If you want your event to actually be accessible to wheelchair users then consider using something more like this: