#cais

Just I guess a reminder for people about my intersex variation: not everyone with CAIS is a girl or a woman. There are boys and men with CAIS, I am one of them, we are not all cis women. The assumption that we are invariably heterosexual cisgender women originated from the biases of doctors with no actual evidence. While there are certainly many of us who are cishet women, the little research we do have suggests that people with CAIS are actually slightly more likely to not fully identify with womanhood or be exclusively straight even when compared to comparison groups of people with MRKH or PCOS (w/ MRKH in particular presenting similarly in many ways- we share traits like no uterus and often having short vaginas etc, which could help control as much as possible for how we experience our gender being impacted by our experiences. When I was diagnosed MRKH was floated as a possibility before I had a karyotype, though a less likely one than CAIS given my testosterone levels), suggesting that we may be more likely than the general population to be trans and/or not straight as well. But my point is that just like anyone we can be any gender or orientation. Stop treating us like we’re a monolith of cis girls. I am a man who has CAIS. Most people who have CAIS are women, yes, but I and many others are still men who have CAIS. The idea that we’re essentially always women is a lie.

Intersexism is my mother saying that it's good that people with CAIS are infertile because "people like that shouldn't reproduce"

Just thinking about a few months ago when I saw my GP and she put "Testicular Feminization Syndrome" under "Issues Addressed" on my after visit summary as if that term isn't ridiculously outdated at this point. Why are you calling AIS "testicular feminization" in the year of our lord 2024?

Intersex userboxes pt. 2!!! (Full pack)