Always Drawing The Daintier Guy In A Gay Ship As Trans Is Not The Allyship Or Trans Rep You Think It

attempting to make a UMA while not knowing anything about how skins work is a lot of fun

A study just came out from Harvard about how gender affirming surgeries are more commonly performed on "cisgender men/boys" than transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people.

But these men/boys have gynecomastia which, if they were born with it (and the study doesn't specify), they're not just "cisgender".

They're intersex.

How many times now have intersex people told us perisex (non-intersex) people to stop using the statistics of their surgeries just as trans talking points, while erasing intersex people on the whole?

We have no idea how many of those surgeries were forced, or coerced, onto these intersex people. Either from doctors, parents, or even societal pressure.

Perisex trans people need to do better. We have to be better allies to intersex people than this. It disgusts me just how much we have failed our own community, time and time again.

UPDATE

The study actually specifically excluded intersex people.

"Importantly, all surgical procedures among patients with indications of differences in sex development or patients with other medical indications for surgery (eg, cancer, injury) were excluded..."

I'm happy to see this particular study has taken care to exclude intersex people, since surgeries done on them cannot be compared to transgender surgeries, but please bear in mind that this is still just one study.

The horrible truth is that medical abuse against our intersex siblings is still heavily normalized within the medical industry. From using terms like DSD, to forcing kids and even BABIES into sexual binaries with non or dubiously consensual surgeries or HRT, these horrors that intersex people have to go through are all too normal for them. That's unacceptable.

If you have reblogged this post without this update, I urge you to delete that reblog and reblog this version instead. We can fight for intersex rights and (if you're also perisex) show our solidarity without spreading misinformation.

what if whales in minecraft!

i may not know what hollow knight is but my friend sure is talented- go look at this rn!!

Tried working in black and white only to realize I can't put colors over it anymore so I'll have to redo it 💀

sorry but if you think people saying curly should have done something to stop jimmy is "demonization" youre kind of pathetic

aaand you are unable to read? i said demonization, and gave no further context? i still think he’s shit, but what I mean is the people that treat him as worse or equal to jimmy or refuse to awknowledge him as an abuse victim because of it are demonizing him. the people that say he should have been disfigured and disabled (as karma or otherwise) are also demonizing him with further ableism added.

anyways i literally don’t care i know fuck all about the game, just that the fandom is the most disgusting ableist shitstain i’ve ever stepped into. lovely to know you care enough to do anon whimpering, literally just reply to my comment next time.

Trans posts then: what's in my pants? Erm my phone XD !! This is an anon blog, my gender is none of your business!

Trans posts now: if you don't disclose whether you are tma or tme within the next three seconds I'm legally allowed to call you a nazi mens rights activist to all of my friends. Give me a detailed explanation of what your genitals look like and why so I can decide if you should have a voice in this conversation.

To this day, many intersex people are mutilated as infants or toddlers.

From malevolent attempts to make their bodies more visually appealing to completely forcing them into a male/female binary.

Please do not just use our suffering as a 'gotcha' moment to own TERFS and other fascists. Please do not forget about us.

Edit: Also, not all parents know what is done to their child. Sometimes, they are lied to, and they are told that the surgery is necessary or even life-saving. Sometimes they are left completely oblivious, like in my case.

Having your child under the care of female staff/doctors does NOT matter. The surgeon who decided to operate on me was female.

For better readability:

Sometimes they can't wait to clip your wings.

I was two days old.

I was supposed to be a moth.

Instead I had to be pretty.

I seek healing.

I denied the false cocoon.

I'd rather be a clipped moth than a forced butterfly.

I sadly do not know how to properly ID something. Other users have reblogged with IDs however, thank you for your work.

[WIP] do not separate (he will cry)

This is Slatra, he is just some guy TM under a mountain, minor sort of god-but-not of hunting and battle :D

Do you have any dragons who are, themselves, gods?

Posts for the month of April were inspired by @dragonaday-fr 's April art prompts. Be sure to check them out!