Same Situation With PCOS. A Lot Of The People I've Seen Be Against PCOS Being An Intersex Variation Are

same situation with PCOS. A lot of the people I've seen be against PCOS being an intersex variation are obsessed with the concept of 'real women', because to them being intersex would mean they're less than women. it's sad that so many people seem deal with this type of intersexism.

I believe that the choice to use the intersex label is and should always be a personal one, however I have noticed many people with Turner Syndrome not wanting to call themselves intersex because 'We are real women' and 'It's a female only condition - We don't have male parts'

Not only is this incredibly transphobic as we don't all identify as women but it also completely misunderstands what intersex actually means (any variation in sex characteristic considered which is not typical for males/females)

Being intersex has never made me less of a woman, I can be an intersex woman and I AM an intersex woman. They aren't exclusive terms?

genuinely this would be such a good idea

hear me out DE

You guys do know that trans guys in relationships with people who try to convince them not to transition are in abusive relationships. And it’s not really a funny joke you can just casually make.

Maybe I’m just on Twitter too much but I keep seeing people say certain cis women look like they are trans men in abusive relationships.

Hey, cis women who say "I wish I was a man but definitely not a trans way, haha! I would never be a man :)"

I say this with all the gentleness in my heart: It is okay for you to be a man. If you want to be a man, you can just be one. You also don't have to stop being a woman to be a man. Multigender people exist. You can be a man and a woman at the same time. Or you can be just a man, or a non-binary man, or non-binary, or something entirely different. You can do and be whatever you want and whatever makes you happy.

Becoming a man is not a betrayal of womanhood and feminism. And everyone who makes you feel like it is an absolute asshole, and you should not ever listen to them. You do not have to push your own happiness aside for other peoples' comfort.

If you want to be a man, try it out! See where it gets you. Maybe it turns out that you really weren't trans, or not a trans man but something else entirely, and that's fine, too. Maybe it turns out you are a trans man. In any case, following those thoughts might get you to a happier and better place in the end. And if you turn out to be happier as a man than you were as a woman, that is wonderful.

Please don't feel forced to stay a cis woman for feminism - any feminism that mistreats or hates trans men and transmasculine people is bad feminism. Being a trans man or transmasc is not a moral failure.

Trans manhood and masculinity are wonderful, and you deserve happiness. And if you find that happiness in manhood/masculinity, you don't deserve to be shamed or harassed for it, and you should not be made to feel the need to put yourself down for it, either.

after i came out as bi initially in my early 20s i suddenly began to question myself because i only found "Certain" women attractive. i began to doubt myself because on average i found myself being attracted to more men than women, and after some pressuring and bullying from my friends, i decided to identify as a strictly gay man instead for quite some time. and while i still AM a gay man and experience attraction to men & people in an achillean way, this did not change the fact that i still experienced attraction to women, and other people, for that matter.

after i got in touch with the lesbian community, this changed entirely. what i realized was that i'm not attracted to white cisheteronormative conventional beauty- what people tell us is beautiful about women is not what i find attractive. i find women who are willing to be themselves no matter what to be hot. i find women who don't care if they have big noses, crooked or missing teeth, strong jaws, facial/body hair, broad chests and shoulders, small or no breasts, narrow hips, fat rolls and big muscles attractive. i find women who embrace who they are to be attractive. and i especially find butch, gender non conforming, genderqueer and trans women attractive

it shouldn't matter what a woman looks like, but i've found that as i age, i like the way women look naturally. no matter if they're cis, trans, intersex, perisex, genderqueer or something else- womanhood itself is attractive. womanhood is a diverse and varied thing that deserves to be enjoyed and celebrated in its diversity. i couldn't put my finger on it, but while there are many conventionally attractive women i definitely find cute, the way that cisheteronormative white society defines what an "attractive" woman looks like just doesn't line up with how diverse and attractive women can be

there's nothing wrong with women who want to dress and look the way we deem what female beauty "should" look like. whether the person is insecure or just likes that look, this is an okay thing- we should never pressure or shame women who want to adhere to these aesthetics and concepts. and it's not a woman's job to be attractive for me, or anyone else. but i came back to accepting that i was bisexual once i realized that the diversity in womanhood is exactly what i love about and find attractive in women.

i love how diverse womanhood is. i love how unique and varied women can look, present and act. i DO love women and womanhood, i just had to allow myself to look beneath the surface and discover that there is much to love and find attractive in "ugly" women. humanity is too diverse to be shoved into narrow boxes of what defines attractiveness.

instead of obsessing over not centering men in lesbianism, you can just be a lesbian. ironically, all this 'non-man x non-man' and 'men can't be lesbians' shit centers men more than just acknowledging that, sometimes, men exist within lesbianism, and that doesn't mean that all lesbians must kiss men NOW.