Female-presenting Nipples

have health problems due to being intersex

have been traumatized by doctors, and/or have a general fear of them

have struggles/traumas/insecurities specifically due to being intersex

get dysphoria due to being intersex but not the same kind of dysphoria that trans/nb people get

since the moment they were born, everybody knew they were intersex

are terrified of being intimate

get misgendered a lot, even if they’re cis

if they’re trans, they feel like they didn’t have the “proper” trans experience

have never seen a picture of someone else that looks like how they look

feel like nobody understands

there’s a group called SMART Recovery that has free meetings just like AA, but it’s all science-based and secular.

2. Soap. Yeah, they had soap from a pretty early point. Sometimes it was scented and sometimes it just smelled like lye, but there you go. Ditto scented powders, lotions, hair products, cosmetics, etc.

3. Whatever their clothes smelled like. Not always body odor. Linen was worn next to the skin with masculine and feminine clothing alike for a LOT of western history, to wick up sweat. I’ve worn a linen chemise under a long-sleeved Edwardian summer dress in Manhattan in August, and even after like six hours, my dress smelled faintly of the lavender it was stored with. My chemise reeked when I got undressed later, but none of the smell had escaped. No joke. Shit really works.

4. Occupational smells. A baker might smell of bread and faintly of sweat, a blacksmith of sweat and iron, a medieval priest of incense, a Victorian teacher of chalk, etc.

5. Yes, sometimes bad. But not everyone by a long shot, and not all the time.

so this IS peak performance