Hey.
Don’t think I don’t see all you ignoring all the posts I’ve made about intersexism.
Multiple intersex people can be yelling at the tops of our voices just to get noticed, but ONE dyadic who says “hey this erases intersex people” and gets fucking praised to the high heavens for being ~oh so progressive and intersectional~. Cut out the bullshit, you don’t really care about us, you just care about the idea of us, and only when it’s convenient for you.
It must be nice to be so privileged that you never have to learn about intersexism - or the mere existence of intersex people - until you decide you want to learn or not. Cause guess what? Intersex people don’t have that option to remain ignorant. We have to go through our entire lives being told by dyadics that we’re broken, that we need fixing, that our lives aren’t worth living. We have our bodies mutilated and drugged with hormones by dyadics who try so desperately to erase us and keep our existence secret.
There are countries where it’s completely legal to murder your own infant child if they are found to be intersex. Most outed intersex people don’t even make it to their 40’s because the murder, rape, and suicide statistics are so high. Huh, wonder why.
And then when you do want to talk about our basic human rights, we’re “too angry” or “too mean” for you to care about us. You tone-police us and then get tired of hearing about all the awful things you’ve done to us, so you shut down and stop caring. Then you go on with your lives, but here’s the thing: We can never go on with ours, we can’t just talk about intersex rights one day and not the next, because it’s our lives on the line, it’s our rights.
Don’t think I - or all of us - don’t see this happening, everyday. It won’t kill you to at least listen to us, but it will kill us if you don’t.
