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My partner and I have been rewatching Steven Universe and mannn I just love it so much. So a little Boooniverse for the holiday? 9 years after my first Boooniverse comic!

Boooniverse comics: (part 1, part 2, part 3)

[pt: definitions]

Here, I will be listing terms and words that may be used throughout this blog by me and submitters, that may help you to understand what is being discussed and language to use in the future.

Note: Here is why we won't be using TSDP/-pathian language [link]

SIG: Socially/Societally imposed gender [link]

This describes the gender that is imposed onto you based on your appearance, presentation and sex characteristics. Everyone has a socially imposed gender, but this language is most used by trans and intersex people to talk about how one's SIG may not be accurate to their internal view of their gender, or how one's SIG is inconsistent.

• ISIG: Inconsistent Socially/Societally Imposed Gender.

This is most often used for intersex individuals (though, not exclusive to them) to describe the experiences one might face having an inconsistent gender imposed onto them because of their intersexuality. A few examples may be that someone is born with wolffian external genitalia and their SIG is a boy/male, but when they experience estrogenizing puberty, their SIG changes to a girl/female, or one has ambiguous genitalia so they experience IGM as an infant to fit into a peritypical female ideal and later are androgynous and are treated as either a man or a woman interchangeably throughout their life.

Perisex trans people may also experience ISIG, an example may be a trans man who is in the process of medical transition and doesn't fully pass as a man 100% of the time, so people may assume they are a man or a woman or as non-binary any given day.

• CSIG: Consistent Socially/Societally Imposed Gender.

This describes the experience of having one consistent socially imposed gender, which is often true for the majority of perisex cisgender/cissexual individuals. Like the wiki states, it's often why people conflate having a certain AGAB to being perceived/raised as being x gender, which isn't very true for a lot of people.

CT[X]: Close to [Sex] [link].

It is a set of terms to describe one's personal view of what their sex is closest to. They aren't inherent, or a catch-all for whoever you believe to be CT[X], it is a personal term that is completely free to be opted into or out of. One may feel that their traits/variations bring them closer to female, while others may feel that those same traits that they share bring them closer to androgynous, or they may use multiple terms to describe their own feelings versus what they think people perceived them to be (ex: I think my variations bring me CTA, but others perceive me to be CTF) it's nuanced and unique to the person.

• CTF: Close To Female

• CTM: Close To Male

• CTN: Close To Neutral

• CTA: Close to Androgynous

People can combine and switch them as they please, here are some examples of some combos:

• CTFA: Close To Female - Androgynous

• CTMN: Close To Male - Neutral

• CTNA: Close to Neutral - Androgynous

Etc.

IGM: Intersex Genital Mutilation.

Intersex Genital Mutilation is what it sounds like- a horrific practice done by doctors to intersex people to "correct" their genitalia, most often done on infants, who cannot consent, and often leads to lifelong disabilities, chronic pain and other health issues.

Doctors will often fearmonger about letting the intersex patient's genitalia be, telling parents / patients "you will never have children / you won't live past x age / you will become permanently disabled / you will never have a lasting relationship*", coercing parents and patients to do the unthinkable without informed consent.

• CIMI: Coercive Intersex Medical Interventions.

This term is to describe any medical procedure done to "correct" someone's intersex traits and variations, done coercively or behind the patient's back.

Ex:

• being pressured onto birth control to subside the effects of hyperandrogenism in those who are feminized.

• being put on hormone replacement therapy without being told what for.

• being coerced by doctors to have one or all of your gonads removed so you can participate in a sport.

• having extra, unwanted things done during a procedure/surgery that you did consent to.

Etc.

(*while one of these things are true, some variations will cause people to be infertile and never have children biologically, never in a million years could that fact ever justify the surgeries that are being performed. It often makes the situation so much worse.)

So! The most "proper" usage of this term is honestly...whatever you think best describes your experience?

When we created the terms CTF and CTM initially, it was because intersex people in our life at the time kept being gatekept out of intersex spaces for being "too male" or "too female", and wanted to remain anonymous, so asked us to create terms for them. Initially these were created to be used like "oh, I am CTF, which means people view me as SPETE [link] in most settings but I'm actually intersex."

PLEASE keep in mind, we were all teenagers (us and the people requesting the terms) during its creation. The coining of these terms were far from perfect at the time.

Basically, the terms were made not necessarily to just describe physical traits, but to describe how ones variation causes society to treat oneself, and how ones own perception of oneself develops as a result. (Sort of similar to how mesosex was created for people who didn't feel "intersex enough" by perisex standards)

The community latched onto it, but there developed a subset of exclusionists that began using it to say "this variation is CTF! This variation is CTM!" when it was never meant to be applied like that. No variation is inherently anything.

We created CTA and CTN, and then people began creating terms like CTFA, CTFN, CTMN, CTMA, CTFM, CTFAM, CTFAN, etc.

People ask us often how to "use it correctly" and "what variations count as _" and we always have to answer saying that's not up for us to decide because it's self interpretive. Is hyperandrogenic PCOS CTF, CTM, CTA, a mixture? Idk! Depends on who you ask! "I have a mullerian duct and people treat me as SPETE that is disordered, that makes me CTF" one person may say, while another person says "I have higher androgens, lots of body hair, a deep voice, and clitoromegaly, that's CTM", meanwhile another says "my mixed sex traits make me CTA!"

See how all of these things can make sense? That's because intersexuality can't really be classified into these strict categories. Another example is that there are people with Turner syndrome who consider themselves CTF, CTN, both, etc.

The examples can go on and on, but our point is none of them are "right" or "wrong."

Basically, in conclusion - the only correct usage of these terms are...well, whatever you make of them! Do you want it to describe how others view you? Go for it. Do you want it to describe how you view your own traits? Go for it! Do you want it to describe a bit of both? Go for it! Do you not feel drawn to them at all? Don't use them!

Pairing: Jake “Hangman” Seresin x Reader

Summary: As princess of your kingdom, you have always been raised to do what is best for your people—trained in the art of diplomacy and how to make decisions. You see no reason why you cannot govern your kingdom on your own, but your father has decrees that you should take a husband. Suitors have been sent from the different kingdoms surrounding your own, but you have no intention of choosing any of them. You’ll let them think they have a chance, squabbling amongst each other for your hand, but you’ll show them all that you are a force to be reckoned with and taken seriously. (Medieval!Knight!AU)

Chapter CW: Death of a parent, World Building. Nothing too serious beyond that.

Word Count: 837

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Once, you had believed the stories. You had been a little girl when your mother told you the story of how your kingdom came to be.

“The lands we rule, sweeting,” she had smiled, dimples creasing her cheeks, “were once the home of gods. Gods who ruled our people, and not too long after, they began to dwindle in numbers—marrying human spouses and producing children that little by little became just like the people they ruled. From these gods come the noble families of Maverick. The blood of the old gods still run through their veins.”

CTF & CTM & CTA & CTN

CTF — is a flag for intersex who are close to female.

CTM — flag for intersex who are close to male.

CTA — flag for intersex who are close to androgyny.

CTN — flag for intersex who are close to neutral.

КТФ — флаг для интерсекс, которые близкоги к женскому.

КТМ — флаг для интерсекс, которые близкоги к мужскому.

КТА — флаг для интерсекс, которые близкоги к андрогиности.

КТН — флаг для интерсекс, которые близкоги к нейтральности.

Gabriel from ULTRAKILL is intersex and transmasculine AFAB CTN (link) using he/it pronouns, and his variation is unidentified!

Requested by @z1ish

Intersex flag-only and popular transmasc flag edits under the cut!

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