If You Happen To Be Reading This And Are Still Confused, I Have Had Two Genital Surgeries In My Life,

If you happen to be reading this and are still confused, I have had two genital surgeries in my life, under very different circumstances.

the first was at the age of six months when I eas unable to consent.

My parents were convinced by surgeons that I would be unhappy with genitalia that didn't align with either binary sex as I grew up, and the best action would be to mutilate me and (poorly) hide the fact.

This was monstrous abuse and I am still deeply traumatized by it.

the second of my genital surgeries was an orchi this year. unlike the surgery in which I was UNABLE to consent, in order to get coverage I needed to get two medical professionals to consent to ALLOW ME to alter my body as an adult. Letters from cis people explaining I'm trans enough.

This surgery brought me relief beyond words, not to mention the fact that the surgeon was able to fix a painful complication of the first mutilation while he did my Orchi.

do you see why these are different?

so. i can't and don't want to 'control' how people feel, but i think if you are cafab & undergo medical trauma related to being intersex, you don't get to call that "growing up as a trans girl".

like. the forced testosterone puberty i went thru? that wasn't me being forced to be a trans boy. that was doctors forcing me on hormones to 'correct' my camab body. in fact, nothing that doctors did to my body without my consent as a child was trans, and i think it would be incredibly fucking disrespectful to call it that. to all trans people. to say that this lack of autonomy, this forced medical treatment, is to be called a transgender experience. like i simply do not think that is at all fair and i think it's really fucked up and transphobic AND intersexist, actually.

people are really like, well what if a cis woman was possessed and inhabited by the soul of a trans woman that died tragically & who was haunting her or whom perhaps she summoned in an arcane ritual, and that cis woman now shares memories & feelings & sometimes even consciousness with a pseudoresurrected ghostly transgender babe. then can she call herself a trans girl?

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it's not 'AI art has no soul' because soul is subjective and creating art is not necessarily a divine spark of inspiration, sometimes human made art is empty of feeling and meaning and that's okay.

it's not 'AI art is ugly' because human made art doesn't need to be pretty, it's still art, no matter if you're starting or if you intentionally make ugly things. It's still okay.

The problem, with AI art (besides the copyright theft, the environmental issues, the artists losing their jobs..)

The problem is that

AI art lacks INTENT

When a human makes something, every part of the creation is a decision made. Why this line, why this color, why this word, why this stitch, why this note.

They may be good decisions, bad decisions, it doesn't matter. The end result is something with thought, and this is why we appreciate art. There is the surface, and underneath, there is an ocean of decisions made by the artist.

AI art has no intent.

Yes, they will type prompts for a general idea. And they will pick a result.

But there is no thought about poses, colors, lines, backgrounds, details, negative space, lighting, texture, framing, etc.

Becoming a good artist means to understand these decisions and align them to make the result you want.

AI art will pick through millions of those decisions made by other people and will stick them together without meaning or reason, so they lose their intended purpose. This is why people think AI art is empty, that it has no 'soul'. Because there is no thought process behind it.

We should stop comparing human and AI art by using words like "better" or "worse". People will always have different opinions.

But as a human, I am more interested in things made by other humans, because I can observe all those tiny decisions, I can relate to some, be surprised by some, dislike some, it's all good.

Art is people communicating.

AI art has nothing to say.

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