#interandromisia

in said sequel, there was a woman in the RCMP who was agressive in a typical early 2000s movie teen guy way. and at some point she just growls out "i have higher levels of testosterone okay?? gahh" and she's basically just....yeah that's her character...a woman w high testosterone w no visible body or facial hair but she's agressive...

This is intersexism and bio essentialism.

I despise when people have the audacity to tell me that my transition was easier because I could access testosterone as a minor because of the way I'm intersex. I love being on T. But before that, I was forced on estrogen and progesterone, and that shit wrecked me physically and mentally.

I still have nightmares back to the time I was forced to take estrogen and progesterone. Like, in these dreams, people will chase me around to try and force the pills down my throat.

Estrogen and progesterone made all my conditions worse, and it made me so dysphoric, but my doctors didn't care until I was almost dying from it. So finally, they took me off it, and let me go on testosterone instead, since that was what my body originally needed the whole time. It took them a while to give me the medication I needed, since everyone wanted me to be a fertile little womb for my "future husband." (Even though I was literally already fucking infertile?? Which my doctors even already shamed me for??)

I think that the medical intersexism I experienced was very closely tied to the medical transandrophobia I experienced. Testosterone is genuinely life-saving for me, physically and mentally. The fact that it took so long to be given to me should be outraging!!

But no, sure, my transition was "easier" because doctors forced me to have a dangerous puberty and withheld a safer puberty from me before finally allowing me to experience a safe puberty as a minor. Intersex transmascs have it so good don't we?

This is intersexism and transandromisia.

Personally I identified as trans masc first. I was in the trans community first. I figured out I was intersex when I started researching testosterone and I figured out that all of that had already happened to me, which led to a bit of a further exploration and re-self defining. I feel like that may not be an entirely uncommon experience for anyone exploring their identity, especially in a society that forces a binary. 🤷

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This is intersexism, intermisogyny and interandromisia.

The way people frame fertility and reproduction like this moral action and any deviation from that or not having the ability to do it as a failing is wild, and it is especially hard for people who DO want kids but can't ever have them biologically. The constant reminder that you can't get pregnant / get someone pregnant from people and being reminded that you "failed" is just. Disgusting.

Women / feminized people are put under this intense pressure to get pregnant and raise kids that when you can't, it's like over 70% of your social worth is drained.

And men / masculinized people, they're under the same sort of pressure, if they're unable to impregnate someone, they get emasculated, degraded, and viewed as being some of the worst stereotypes (too many horror villains have infertility as part of their backstory, often relating to being intersex).

Andromisia is another term for anti-masculinity (you can learn more about it from @this-is-anti-masculinity) and interandromisia is the intersection of intersexism and andromisia, much like intermisogyny (the intersection of intersexism and misogyny or hatred and bigoted attitudes towards feminized people)

I dint even identify with the term trans and transgender but no one believes me and everyone is always trying to control me and they’re so suspicious of me they say it’s because I’m a man and unlabeled and it scares people and makes them suspicious of me

I shouldn’t have to tell anyone what I have or defend the fact I’m a man I don’t have to tell anyone anything and they shouldn’t just assume everyone is either trans or cis and everyone with dysphoria and body image issues is trans wanting to change my body doesn’t come with a label and just because I don’t want to identify with a label doesn’t mean I’m being bigoted/internalized bigoted to the label and the people who are that label im so sick of being told how I feel and that I’m secretly an asshole predator trying to sneak into queer spaces or to ashamed to call myself what I am that’s not true! And no one believes me!!

This is interandromisia.

I'm so sorry you have had to go through this, anon. It's disgusting and deplorable, nobody should ever have to feel that way.

You are not a predator or a bigot for wanting community while not being trans. Medical decisions for yourself are for you, your identity is yours, and you are not bad for what that looks like.

The immediate predatorjacketing because you're a man is sickening. You aren't scary because you're an unlabeled man. That's utter bullshit.