Things the Transid Community Needs to Understand About Intersex!
A little PSA by a transid cisintersex person about how intersex people are talked about in the community and how we can make it better for cisintersex and transintersex people alike!
Intersex refers to people born with sex characteristics that don't fit the typical 'male' or 'female' sexes, also called wolffian and mullerian
Transintersex refers to those who feel they should be intersex, identify as intersex whilst not having intersex traits, or otherwise identify as intersex in a transid way
If you are transintersex, this means that you feel as if you should have an intersex variation (or several) and/or identify as having one in a trans way
Transintersex is not the word to use if you feel as if you should:
Be bigenital and having both fully-functioning, perinormative, genitalia. This is a fictionalised concept, not an intersex variation! Ambiguous genitalia exists and people can have both sets, but it does not present in the perinormative way you see in NSFW fiction
- Alternatives: transbigenital, salmacian
Have any other fictional sex traits or sex trait combinations. This includes the fictional sex characteristics you see in omegaverse and similar NSFW content - these are not intersex variations
- Alternatives: transids specific to these fictional sex traits
Have things like an androgynous facial structure, a beard whilst AFAB, and other independent traits that aren't inherently caused by being intersex. This doesn't apply if you feel like you should have an intersex variation on top of these things
- Alternatives: transids specific to these traits
I recommend really looking into what makes you feel connected to the intersex identity / experience and see if you're maybe reducing intersex down to a certain trait, or if you actually feel as if you should have an intersex variation
It is still insensitive to say "I'm jealous of (cis)intersex people" even if you are transintersex. We are not a monolith - all of us have different experiences and intersex variations, and many of us have had our bodily autonomy stripped away, gone years not knowing who we truly are, faced deep oppression and dis/misinformation, and so on
Addon for para communities especially: Bigenital fictional characteres are not intersex! NSFW content featuring bigenital characters is not intersex NSFW content! Do not tag it as intersex! Also, the Japanese word for these characters is an intersexist slur just like the H slur! End of post yay
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