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Date of upload: Feb 10, 2023 ^^
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fun story: i found out i was intersex at age 20(currently 23) when i got my first ultrasound screening for a routine ovarian/uterine cancer check(runs in the family). while i didn't have any sign of cancerous tissue in there, they did however find a testicle, just vibing in there. i guess it never fully developed, so it's not functional at all and it doesn't cause any issues, it just be chillin, so i chose not to evict it and have inevitably pack bonded with it. like, there's just a lil guy in theređ
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A friend had an intersex baby a few years ago and had a WONDERFUL doctor! The doctor explained everything and told the parents that the child seems like it may feel most comfortable as he/him based on the doctor's previous experience, but could absolutely end up being trans or non-binary. The doctor said the best option is to be mentally prepared in case that happens and let the child decide for themselves when they grow up rather than taking a guess, doing surgery and being wrong. It was awesome! You hear so many horror stories, but there are docs who understand and do the right thing!
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We just found out my sister is intersex at age 26. Apparently she was born "closed up", so she had a surgery done on her as an infant. My mother was an immigrant from another country, spoke a different language and the doctors never talked to her about the ramifications of doing the surgery that young. I don't think doctors should be doing "normalizing" surgeries for babies.
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I remember hearing about a guy who did a radio interview after he found out he was intersex. They had sewn his uterus up as an infant and because he was in his 50's or 60's he had never been told about the surgery. When he worked out that he was intersex he realised when he was a teenager the pain in his abdomen had been his period & his body was reabsorbing the blood.
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Itâs always really fucked me up that doctors perform these surgeries on INFANTS, literally some of them days old, for nothing other than cosmetics, even though theyâre fully aware the surgeries cause all sorts of medical issues later in life, lifelong trauma for intersex people, and more often than not they âchooseâ the wrong sex and the person ends up transitioning later in life, or at least not fully identifying with the sex they were literally assigned at birth.
A lot of times parents are told by doctors that their children need these surgeries and then they need to never talk about it again. Itâs absolutely insane. Performing surgery of that magnitude, surgery that alters someoneâs life to that degree, requires consent and infants cannot give that.
Any doctors performing these surgeries should be in prison.
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This is so interesting to me because my son wasn't considered intersex because his body parts were female but when he was 11 he had to go to an endocrinologist and they said hormonally he was pretty much male. His female hormones were so low they wanted to put him on them. He was so sick though, and it wrecked him emotionally and it didn't help his health issue at all. So by age 12 he said he was male. He felt male, he really honestly looks male other than those reproduction organs.
Speaking of, of course in Tennessee he could not get gender-affirming treatment but they'd be happy to keep pushing female hormones on him.
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I don't know if, as a parent, I'd ever feel comfortable choosing which sex my kid should be. So many times, they choose one for selfish reasons and end up mentally harming the kid down the road. I love how open they are about such a sensitive topic and really helps bring light to other parents who may have to deal with this so they can hopefully make better, more informed decisions and be more open with their kids about the topic as well.
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Im intersex and i wanna infodump to strangers about it!!!!
Im too scared of doctors to know what âtypeâ i am but i have genitalia w ambiguous traits and luckily never had a surgery done on me. Basically i can pee standing up and im also able to get preggo to my knowledge but i imagine it would be more painful than normal (which is saying a lot obvi)
I dont identify as anything because gender feels unnecessary and too fictional for me to take seriously.
People are actually more understanding of it than they are of trans people in my experience, ig because they have a bioessentialist view of gender that completely breaks down when they have to consider me in their argument.
Growing up was tough because I was socialized as a girl but i had to hide an adamâs apple and pitch my voice up, so I felt ugly esp when my mom kept pointing my masculine traits out to me.
Ive taken both testosterone and estrogen. Testosterone gave me hypersomnia and I had to quit using it because Iâd sleep 20 hours at a time. Estrogen didnt effect me outside of minor weight gain and boobie growth, but I went off of it because I wanted to be more natural with my hormone presentation for a while.
The term Hermaphrodite only bugs me because Iâm a huge greek mythology nut and I know that Hermaphroditos wasnt even intersex he was fused with a woman named Salmacisâ what bothers me the most is that there are plenty of greek/phrygian gods that ARE intersex like Phanes and Cybele.
Thatâs all â¤ď¸
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Remember everyone:
gender identity, gender presentation, genetic makeup, genetalia, and biological sex are all different things, and not everyone is built the same.
Be a kind person with anyone and everyone's identity. You never know their whole background, and frankly, it's not your business.
Just be respectful. Period.
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I found out from a intersex person(really nice btw) that they ended up being confused as they grew up because during their puberty years they didn't know that they was intersex or what it was especially since the doctors changed his privates since he was a baby. The parents also put him on different medication like testosterone forcefully as a young kid because he couldnt choose. Let your kids be and let them choose to want this kind of surgery when they're older stop making choices for your children people.
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