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• Friendly reminder bæddel, hermaphrodite, & futa are all slurs no matter the context.

• Intersex doesn't mean having a penis and vagina/cosexual/bigenital.

• When trans people go on about how "cis people get gender affirming care" "cis people get puberty blockers/hormones" etc, you are talking about intersex people. And most of the time we don't have the autonomy granted to us to choose. The same system oppresses us and forces us into the status quo. The only difference is for intersex people they are medically forced into one sex category, for the peritrans they are denied medical things to keep them in society's binaries. It's a lack of autonomy.

• IGM (intersex genital mutilation) is when doctors decide to genitally change intersex babies. These surgeries are only cosmetic, meaning the doctors do not care about how it functions, just the look.

• Every single anti trans law has made an exception for intersex people so they can continue oppressing us.

• Lying about being intersex doesn't make you safer. You as a trans dude lying about having gynemastica isn't making you safer. Intersex people are treated just as badly.

• Intersex people are still raped & mutilated by the medical system (yes even in '1st world' countries) and it's common practice.

• A species cannot be "all intersex", as being intersex refers to variations in ones sex.

• Whenever you see a "nonbinary" animal, it's usually just an intersex animal.

• Intersex people are not assigned "intersex" at birth, We usually still have AGABs, as AGAB was original used by doctors to refer to us. Additionally, an intersex person may be reassigned throughout life.

• SIG refers to socially imposed gender, for many intersex people they have an inconsistent socially imposed gender.

You can have both. As an aroace person I am telling you you can have both.

Allow me to explain a bit better… aromanticism and asexuality both, as many sexualities and gender identities do, exist on a spectrum! Plenty of aro folks can still engage in romantic relationships for any variety of reasons, they are not all completely romance repulsed— same with ace folks and sex repulsion

Demi is still on the aroace scale, grayro and graysexual are still aspec, even if it’s not labeled anything specific you can still be aspec so long as what you personally experience is any kind of lack of romantic or sexual feelings

Some aspec people engage in activities because it makes their partners happy, and while they themselves don’t get anything out of it, they do enjoy making the people they care about happy. Aro people can kiss because they enjoy the physical feeling of it even if they don’t feel any sort of romance from it. They can cuddle and go on dates and make “romantic” gestures because it would make their partners happy. They could call their relationships “dating” or use more traditional romantic labels and still not see the relationship or their own feeling as inherently romantic. The key, as always, is communication between partners. The partner acknowledges that the other does not feel romantic feelings here, and they’re alright with that, maybe they even like that, but they can both still also acknowledge that their relationship is something all their own

Everything I’ve said about romance and aro people also applies to sex and ace people btw, the only difference is which feeling is not being experienced

So, in that same vein, an aroace person can still care for another person enough to want to be in a “relationship” with them. They can still participate in romantic gestures, can still participate in sexual encounters, can still do any number of things a typical allo relationship would. The difference is just that they don’t get quite the same pleasure from all of that as their partner might, and that that is acknowledged by their partner.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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