Post B6w1k6TRA8Qb5dhBbc by Alsvid@brain.worm.pink
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 (DIR) Post #B6vAsxoPROQ9GHqRvM by SecondUniverse@autistics.life
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       Intersex pride.Of all the letters in LGBTQI, I think Intersex people are unique in that we often get added to the rainbow by society as soon as we are born, and unlike other queer people, our families often "know" about us long before we do.There is a conspiracy of silence to stop intersex kids from knowing about themselves. The reason "normalizing" surgery is done early in life is precisely because the event will not be remembered. In my case, my earliest memory is recovering from such surgery. It took decades to understand what that fragmentary memory was.Unlike the other letters of LGBTQI, intersex conditions often come with significant medical concerns. Amongst other issues, I had an endocrine crisis leading to severe arthritis in my early years. But my doctors were so intent on bolstering my normalized identity, they could not acknowledge or treat the problem. Ultimately, I accidentally fixed myself by starting hormone therapy as part of gender affirming care.The origin of this medical and social control is the 1950s era anxiety that if the child has an "abnormal" body, they will grow up gay. As bizarre as it may seem, the pathologization of intersex and the resulting nonconsensual and deceptive treatments are a form of "queer prevention" therapy.Intersex pride is about acknowledging that bodily diversity is the real normal. Intersex pride is about demanding treatment for the real health issues and an end for nonconsensual cosmetic treatments. Intersex pride is about resisting the identity policing and secrecy that society deems "good for us".#pride #intersex
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vgmOB8D3N3XfNjUG by meso@new.asbestos.cafe
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       @SecondUniverse why do gay niggas have to group intersex people into it like what being born intersex means you gotta be a homo?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vgmONtRbZyBFLvNY by meso@new.asbestos.cafe
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       @SecondUniverse issa trvth nvke why report
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vgmOVKzvXAYKpryy by yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe
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       @meso @SecondUniverse 4 reports LMAO
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vgmOgKL4KB6Pye6y by yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe
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       @meso @SecondUniverse SICK NAZI BIGOT
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vtOmPtjvmtAZMT6O by lina@eientei.org
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       @yomiel @SecondUniverse @meso maybe he means "sick nazi bigot" as in dude you're fucking sick, so fucking cool
       
 (DIR) Post #B6w1k4PoocLShpzGgi by Alsvid@brain.worm.pink
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       @SecondUniverse I was not operated on but I vividly remember my pediatrician threatening to call CPS on my mother if she did not comply with his demands to cut my hair short and dress me in what he deemed boy's clothes when, and also him telling me it was perfectly normal for me to have undescended testicles, then giving me a very strange speech about how I "wouldn't get to do everything other people do" when i hit the age other kids hit puberty.I strongly suspect he thought I would have done some drastic to myself upon discovering I was infertile and intersex later on in life but I gave his ass the swerve by coming out as a trans woman in my 20s after discovering i might be trans in my mid-teens (partially because of my unconventional and unusual puberty).  I even reckon he thought it might have been funny for me to discover this on my own later in life while trying to fit into the "male" box he was forcing me into against the consent of my mother at that time.But yes, doctors conspire to stop us from knowing what's wrong with us.  I think they do this intentionally to cause us harm and in the hopes of culling our population.RE: https://autistics.life/@SecondUniverse/116680010757021175
       
 (DIR) Post #B6w1k6TRA8Qb5dhBbc by Alsvid@brain.worm.pink
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       @SecondUniverse There is more to this story because I am black and I think that it was also a case of medical negligence and medical racism on that white pediatrician's part, like "haha, this useless subhuman's gonna be so confused when he can't breed"He got what he wanted when he misdiagnosed my sister as having 'teething issues' when she in fact had a congenital heart defect and straight up died at 18 months when I was 7 years old, but in spite of his malicious behavior, I survived and escaped his clutches with my skin intact