I truly do wish I could come back here but it genuinely feels like the intersex community here especially has so many problems of division. A lot of you let racism run rampant. Some weird subset of you are weird anti-kink puritans. Some of you are intertransmisogynists. Some of you put intersex people into classes of "who's more intersex and who's less intersex."
We have people on here trying to fucking play doctor. There are repeated issues of large community members accepting detailed drawings of people's genitals, whether it's on here, you're posting it or you're receiving them in a discord server.
This community let a pluralphobic transmed act as a community leader for months. For years. This was someone who frequently misused ASAB, was butchmisic towards transmasc butches, is a reddit user, especially on r/transgendercirclejerk, and claimed on more than one occasion that "trans radfems are either not trans or radfems."
This person went to reddit and said, and I quote, directly: "uj/ perisex tumblrites with 1 million mogai flags larping as intersex and bastardizing real intersex activism because they want very badly to call trans women "males"." This was said, albeit, about another member of the community who is most definitely worth criticizing but fakeclaiming is absolutely fucking unacceptable. This statement harms more than the intended target and hurts more intersex people like me who have complicated queer identities BECAUSE OF OUR INTERSEXUALITY.
THIS IS WHO WE HAD AT THE FACE OF OUR COMMUNITY. THIS IS WHO YOU GAVE A PLATFORM. It didn't take until from what I could find, from literally February of THIS YEAR for you all to call it out.
(For clarity, I am not a radfem. I do not support radfems. I however do not fucking support degendering/misgendering trans people. When you tell a radfem they aren't really trans, you are literally doing that.)
So many of you don't care enough about the bastardization and colonization taking place in our community at the hands of intersexists. You don't care enough that decades of evidence and history discussing our oppression have been erased, buried, deleted to a point it doesn't exist anymore, or it's extremely buried and difficult to find. You don't care that intersexists have rewritten history in their favor. You don't care that they've essentially done the equivalent of bookburnings to our history and literature.
You don't listen to victims and survivors of IMV (Intersex Medical Violence), IGM or forced HRT. You put the feelings of perisex people who have erased our history and bastardized our oppression to hell in back above us. The meaning and history of ASAB may not be a big deal to you if you haven't suffered like we have, but it's a big deal to a lot of us who have.
You should care more. You should care about us more. You should make this space better. You should make this space safer. It's not just intersexist perisex people running us off the site. I didn't leave because of perisex people.
I know I'm on a list as one of the people who've gotten run off the site or terminated. I don't mind that. I'm grateful that I was thought of. I just want to make it clear that I left because of the intersex community on here. It is abusive and bigoted members of the intersex community here itself that made me leave.