Skauni

Intersex 101 reminder: Intersex people can have any gender.

Most intersex people are the gender that was socially impacted on them (and would likely identify as cis). Whereas if it takes a transition to live their gender identity, they'll probably identify as trans.

Intersex people are more likely than perisex people to wind up trans, but it's still a minority of intersex people (like 10%)

Thinking that all intersex people might be "technically" trans reeks of bioessentialism and ignores how the majority of intersex people are assigned a binary gender at birth.

Not because I am intersex

Ignorant people who have this logic is why I HATE the jokes about me being cis bc im nonbinary and intersex. It's just erasure disguised as a joke.

Intersex people are assigned a sex at birth, often forcefully with corrections to our bodies

Trans people get the term assigned gender at birth from the history of intersex people being forcefully assigned. Bc it is an assignment.

Doctors poke and prod us and decide based on some wacky terf bioessentialist logic that often contradicts so they change their mind or argue with each other what bioessentialist bullshit applies to the person they are forcing into one of two boxes.

Intersex folks don't get assigned intersex at birth, they usually don't even get told they are intersex. Doctors wont even use the word intersex. Theyll either call us the h- slur or give us a diagnosis term that nobody uses so we cant find community. Intersex folks get assigned a binary gender just like everyone else. It's often hidden from them even when surgeries and hormones are forced on them multiple times during their childhood.

And then when we disagree with the doctors assessment, they will talk us or our families into "fixing" the problem with cosmetic changes and hormones to match the one the doctors decided on before. as if that would change how we feel inside. As if that would change our gender.

I did not get assigned nonbinary at birth. I did not get assigned intersex at birth. I was assigned a binary gender. I had to learn about being nonbinary and intersex all on my own as an adult and come to terms with them separately.

I knew I was nonbinary before I even knew I was intersex, despite being put on "corrective" hormones to fix a problem that wasn't a problem and would not fix the actual problem I was experiencing.

Luckily, I couldn't afford this hormone. Otherwise, I would have been taking it for half a decade before finding out about my intersex status.

But guess OP didn't have good intentions and couldn't be bothered to look anything up themselves.

i think there's been a misunderstanding

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(also i should mention to not confuse people, i did change simon's outfit to be more like his movie-one. i just didn't like drawing the one i put him in. i hadn't thought too far ahead when making that first comic so now im kinda retcon-ing the "lore" to fit my new plan, as vaguely described below \/)

ive got a bit more of a plan now so i dooonnttt think ill need to retcon anything else?? also fun to realize im not stuck in my previous past mistakes because this is literally a fan comic and i can do what i want

close ups \/