Please Don't Die

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.

Droners assemble!!

DRONERS!! We require your assistance

..Okay. Sorry for the Wyatt Whale-ish title here, but we ran into a bit of trouble while writing the script for our video essay on the show. Which is why now we're reaching out to you.

First off, we'd like to address the fact that we dunno which of the Droners teams, Tikis excluded, to introduce first. So if u hv suggestions... you know what to do.

Second on the list, we'd like to go a bit into the characters themselves. We're not the best at analysing traits when it comes to cartoons, so if you have noticed something that you'd like to see included in our video, please do reach out to us.

The best way to do that is through Discord, but we don't accept random friend requests, so that's why we're not going to put our username here (ask for it if you'd prefer to communicate through there). If you don't happen to have a Discord account, we do accept comments on this very post and DMs via Tumblr, though we might not see them very quickly.

Anyways, thanks for sitting through this huge block of text, and we hope you have a good day/night!! See you soon!! :33

Yep, I headcannon Phoebe as Autistic.

I haven't seen anyone do an autism creature of Phoebe yet so I decided to try myself (Photoshop is part of my coursework after all).

Sucks that 'womanizer' is a word used to refer to misogynistic men cause it sounds like what Dr Doofenshmirtz would call estrogen shots

something something taking on the mannerisms of your loved ones

I don’t often use ao3 but I was feeling a specific kind of brainrot and while I didn’t get exactly what I needed to scratch the itch in my brain I found this

Even the premise to this is My Kinda Shit

The Legend Of SWORD DOG

No safety. No food. No aid. No water. No healthcare. No education. Is this what it means to live? Is this what world accept as life?

If a group of animals were trapped, starved, and cut off from the world like this, people would be outraged. But because it's us—human beings—somehow, the world looks away.

These are unbearable days. Everything feels heavy. Each hour presses on my chest like I’m being suffocated.

My family needs urgent help.

Basic survival has become nearly impossible. Bread—just bread—now costs over $25 a day to make.

We are not asking for luxury. We are begging for life.

Please, if you’re reading this: help. Reblog this post. Talk about us. Donate if you can. Even a small act can mean everything right now.

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