In light of recent events I am posting this here

Caster Semenya is a cis woman who has intersex characteristics, so she has slightly elevated hormones. She’s a lesbian, a SOUTH AFRICAN lesbian which is a particularly marginalized set of people in the lgbtq+ community, married to a woman and has done nothing wrong but be an exceptional professional athlete.  So tell me why the fuck TERFs are calling her an ugly man who “probably has a little penis” (quoting more than a few of them) are CELEBRATING what is happening to her? Forcing her to take testosterone dampeners to even be allowed to compete? 

I mean, I know why bc TERFs are often off the damn chain with antiblack racism and the obvious transphobia but lol, intense perisexism too?A whole goddamn cis lesbian is a great target, now? And TERFs cry about being called disgusting, right wing fascists? oh aight

An absolute outrage.

I deleted my original reblog because I forgot to add: The reason why you don’t see too many Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists caring about a cis lesbian is because most of them genuinely don’t care about lesbians in any material way because they vast majority aren’t lesbians at all. Most modern TERFs are straight women and have their roots in other conservative movements like Evangelical and Catholic Tradwives. They’re not going to care because she’s next on the hitlist after all the trans women are gone lmaooo

Bllllloooooop!

This whole time terfs have been saying “it’s biology which makes you a women :) taking chemical hormones is mutilation :)”

And now there’s a cis woman with slightly raised hormones, but is still a woman, and has been AFAB, and raised a woman, and identifies as a woman, and the only reason anyone knows about her intersex characteristics is because her medical history was illegal leaked…and suddenly she’s not a woman. Which means that other intersex women, women with PCOS, women with hormone imbalances (which is commen af for menopausal women), also aren’t women. 

Every so often a movement will trip up over the curtains and reveal the actual truth behind something. Terfs sprout a lot of bullshit about protecting “real” women, and preserving womanhood, and how womanhood is this holy thing. If you belief what they say, then you might be under the impression that they care about womanhood the most out of every other section of feminism.

But then the curtains come down and you see that womanhood is defined as being “like them”, and if you aren’t like them then you just aren’t a woman. You can be cis and excel in your field at an international level, but if you can’t conform to be like them then you’re not a woman, but rather something to be hated. It’s intense, intense misogyny, and why terfs will always walk hand-in-hand with conservatives. Because for all of their cheap supporting “real women” talk, the second they can find the same use of rhetoric to shit on the marginalised then they will. 

fuck terfs. 

Yeah so if you’re not intersex your opinion on whether or not we’re inherently LGBT does not matter

Don’t mention in your pride month posts what /you/ think the consensus is because either way you’re wrong. “The general consensus intersex people have is-” stop. There is no consensus. LGBT intersex people are consistently discussing this and the weight behind this discussion.

The only consensus we have come to is that y'all only bring up intersexism with regards to the acronym and it’s obviously performative

Happy anniversary to this post

Happy Pride month y'all

“Intersex advocates are rejoicing at a paper released by three former US Surgeons General. The surgeon-generals called for an end to forced medical surgeries on young intersex people.

Dr Joycelyn Elders, Dr David Satcher and Dr Richard Carmona were the 15th to 17th Surgeons General respectively.

The three condemned genitoplasty and other procedures, which are often performed on infants with intersex traits.

Intersex advocates, human rights groups and even the World Health Organization recognize ‘corrective surgery’ can cause more harm than good.

The paper comes as a new study revealed people who did not have forced surgery grew up without predicted problems.

The French study found ‘so far no major concerns have been reported from patients and their families’ and ‘with appropriate medical care and psychological support, it is possible to defer genital surgery’.

Read the full piece here

Forced gender assignment surgery was legal to perform until 2017. Let that sink in.

OH MY GOD /??!?! oH MY GOD OH MY GOD IM GONNA CRYFINALLY

THIS IS FUCKING HUUUUUUUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because they associate it with the H slur. That’s a big reason a lot of intersex people loathe that flag.

Wait, the purple and yellow OII flag is associated with the H slur? Or do you mean the stripes one? I know there’s a h-slur flag someone made, but it’s different from the OII one and the pink/blue stripes one.—mod D

Tje OII flag colors were chosen because they weren’t blue or pink, but their own colors, but the original post unfortunately did describe them as “[h-slur] colours”. So, while it’s not directly connected to that word, it was used in the post once by people who’ve reclaimed it. There’s nothing inherent to it that’s tied with the word itself, but I could see how some people would personally want to move away from that.

Thanks for explaining!—mod D

Because they associate it with the H slur. That’s a big reason a lot of intersex people loathe that flag.

Wait, the purple and yellow OII flag is associated with the H slur? Or do you mean the stripes one? I know there’s a h-slur flag someone made, but it’s different from the OII one and the pink/blue stripes one.—mod D