A place for debunking misconceptions about intersex people, of which there are MANY.
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You get the idea.
Important Information:
This Community was made by an intersex person who is also nonbinary. As the maker of this sub, let me say that in all my years of social media usage, I have seen SO many people not know the first thing about what being intersex is, much less the details of it. This Community is intended to be a place where inaccuracies about intersex people are to be debunked.
Seen on tumblr: common misconceptions about intersex
We are not 'biologically nonbinary', it's actually fairly rare for us to be assigned X at birth, the majority of us are given an assigned sex. Intersex is a catch-all for a huge number of variations,...
Posting because it's frustrating how often I see nonbinary folks say they want to "transition to intersex" just noooo that's not what intersex is. Like congrats on figuring out body transition goals but just that idea that "intersex is ambiguous genitals and that's all there is to it" kept me in the closet about being intersex for years.
An important reminder/rant that not every intersex person has (or will get) a diagnosis, nor should that be what is used to define who is/isn't intersex
People need to understand that some intersex people find out late, and not every single intersex person has had invasive medical trauma, and we don't owe you our history or proof of our intersex stat…
(Not my writing but I vibe with it so much)
So I'm still gathering my thoughts on The Deep by intersex author Rivers Solomon which I read for @intersexbookclub and one thing that I keep seeing in reviews for the book is "all of the wajinru are...
Keeping with the theme of the community. I am so tired of seeing perisex sci-fi fans say that all the
<insert aliens species that can reproduce as both male and female>
are intersex. Not how it works folks!Common Misconceptions About Intersex People
To get the ball rolling, I will say that there are PLENTY of terms that people call intersex people that tend to be received terribly. Some were so bad that some websites had to change up their tags.
CW: bad terms
Intersex people are often (with some exceptions made by people who are actually putting in the time to get things right) NOT what online art and literature sites use the tag "intersex" for, often in a sea of tags, some of which are ALSO profane (I've censored them for your sake), like
and ::: spoiler spoiler d--k + girl ::: , and variations of these. 😬
They actually got removed by E6 (not going to finish THAT) because of popular demand. IF one tries searching those (I don't recommend doing so), you will get a redirect.
Then there's usage of deprecated (obsolete term that the scientific community eschewed) terms like ::: spoiler spoiler hermaphrod!te ::: and its short form, which gets thrown around on art sites with monotonous reg