STAY SAFE!! [ID: The Gilbert Baker Pride Flag With The Words Happy Pride To All Those Who Are Unable

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

they don't, but apparently some people have the fear of being seen as ipad kids for using AAC?

destigmatize being an Ipad kid, so that peace for aac users may follow

I'm on T. Have been for a bit over two years, and while I occasionally get dysphoric over not having results that are intense enough (AKA my brain has convinced me that hardly anything has happened), my self confidence has overall improved.

rant under the cut, don't want to force those looking for positivity to read if they don't want to

That's why it's so frustrating to see the demonization of testosterone and its effects, to live with someone who treats it like a poison. I understand not everyone wants the effects, but to shit on it constantly is just so hostile and hurtful. I would never do that to estrogen.

i love you so much if you are a person, trans, intersex or something else who takes testosterone hrt and loves what it's done for you. people often treat testosterone like it's a tragedy, but most people who want to take it end up loving its effects. even if people don't, that's okay, they're unique experiences that don't diminish the other. it just always makes my heart sing when someone else finds out that they love what testosterone HRT does for their mental and physical health. it's a blessing

This is an open letter to the trans community, as an intersex person; please advocate for us in ways other than trying to use our existing as a gotcha against transphobia.

Boost our voices and acknowledge the violence we face in contexts outside of their relation to trans issues.

Please realize the fact that we have been violently erased from society in a way perisex people will never experience. We are still considered malformed and disordered in a professional medical context. We are seen as nothing but a disease to be treated and fixed. With violence. And this is accepted and normalized in our society. And we will only ever be seen this way as long as the sex binary remains.

The number of countries where our mutilation is illegal can be counted on one hand. Our mutilation. Imagine if the government allowed for and endorsed the act of surgically altering your body as a child because of the way you were born. Because the sex binary is more important to endosex society than the bodily autonomy and human rights of intersex people.

Please, all we ask is the bare minimum amount of effort in understanding our experiences. Stop forcing us into terms not made for us. Stop misusing AGAB language. Stop reinventing binaries. No, not every intersex person feels they are trans or cis. These words were only made with endosex experiences in mind. As were MOST queer labels. Stop fetishizing our bodies and perpetuating stereotypes. Stop saying shit like "gender isn't binary, but sex is". Stop calling us futas and herms, stop saying "people with both parts", Stop conflating being trans and being intersex. Actually listen to what our community says. Please. The amount of intersexism in the trans community breaks my heart.

If you want to stand with us, you need to acknowledge your privilege as an endosex person, regardless of whether or not you are trans.

^^^

other: while agender is a huge part of my identity, so is being multigender. I literally just use the term multigender most commonly to describe the parts of my identity that are multigendered.