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This is my home Which was destroyed by the accursed occupation yesterday I'm not sad about the stones I'm sad about the memories I hope this damned war ends 💔💔😔

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Perisex allies: stop this shit

CW: intersexism

Came across this infographic during some google image searching and I'm still kind of a state of despair about it because it's not just offensively wrong about what intersex is, it was used to teach university students about queer issues:

Alt text: LGBTQIA+ are defined one by one. Intersex is defined erroneously as "These are people who were born with genital organs of both sexes (male and female). It is a genetic condition."

It's one thing for your rando perisex person to be getting this wrong on social media. It's another thing entirely when it's professionals getting this wrong in an educational setting. 😩 And that this infographic appears in a peer-reviewed publication. 😩

It's even worse to know the students that were taught with this infographic were medical students, who will be the ones traumatizing intersex people for decades to come 😩

It's so wrong in so many different ways:

Intersex is not limited to people with genital differences. Most intersex people have intersex variations that are not apparent at birth, with puberty being the most common time of life for variations to present. Many people find out in adulthood having no outward physical differences.

Of the intersex people with genital differences, they do not have two sets of genitals. Most genital differences are still recognizably female or male (e.g. spadias), and those who have ambiguous genitals have one set.

Intersex is not "male parts + female parts" or even "intermediate male/female parts", it is an umbrella term for anybody whose primary/secondary sex characteristics don't line up with what is expected for male and female bodies. Some intersex variations make women look more feminine, or make men look more masculine.

Defining intersex by genital differences doesn't just exclude most intersex people, it also sets the tone that we are defined by our genitals. To be publicly intersex is to have non-stop DMs about your genitals. This sort of framing sets up openly intersex people for invasive questions and harassment, and it keeps large numbers of intersex people from coming out.

Many intersex variations do not have a known genetic basis. Many intersex variations are caused by exposure to certain hormonal levels in the womb. Certain medications when taken during pregnancy can trigger intersex variations.

While bodily variation is necessary for being intersex, the social experience of stigma, discrimination, isolation, hyper-medicalization, and hyper-sexualization are all just as much a part of being intersex.

📣 Perisex allies: this is shit you can stop. When you see other perisex people parrot this sort of misinformation, correct them. Direct them to look up resources written by actually intersex people.

Here are some starter resources to give:

Intersex explained by Hans Lindahl

Media and style guide by IHRA

FAQ by intersex-support

A recent post I did compiling information for trans people who want to be better intersex allies

About Gaza Funds

i never puppy bores when i do my puppy chores!!

i wag my puppy tail when i check my puppy mail!!

im always happy looking when i do my puppy cooking!!!!

It seems like people really don't know why Palestine gets 'special' treatment (i.e. more observation and abuse) by the U.N. Just a reminder that the U.N. was created to destroy Palestine and ensure the zionist occupation's existence. I'm sick of hearing 'why does the U.N. only talk about Palestine', 'why does the U.N. not care about anything else', 'the U.N. is antisemitic for focusing on Palestine', 'Palestinians are the U.N.'s welfare queens' (the last one in disparaging comments about UNRWA). The U.N. was literally created to legitimize the destruction of Palestine in pursuit of a new form of united Western imperialism.

The first act of the U.N. general assembly was to destroy Palestine in 1947 with its illegal 'Partition Plan' that no Palestinians ever accepted. The U.N. is responsible for the destruction of Palestine against our wishes. The U.N. is responsible for the statelessness of 7 million Palestinians, many of whom can't even fill out official forms because it's illegal to put 'Palestine' as your country of origin.

The U.N. relegated us to this status as their first act of international law. Don't forget it.

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