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מיר וועלן זיי איבערלעבן

we will outlive them

sometimes I get so angry thinking about ‘The Imitation Game’ that I have to go in a little ‘upset big tantrum room’ in my head for a calm down

like, Benisnatch Cumberque played the same character he’s always plays as an asshole genius and we were all supposed to be okay with it, but it’s basically character slander

at different parts of the movie Turing is described as ‘arrogant, “inhuman,” “narcissistic,” and even “a monster,” in the film he goes against those around him and is shown to periodically ignore and belittle his colleagues

And. I. Am. So. Angry.

Alan Turing was described by his friends and people that knew him as “intensely shy and kindly”, he was said to “inspire loyalty and affection among those who appreciated his unusual gifts” and was “unfailingly generous with his time and expertise, especially toward younger recruits”

He was kind, he was kind, HE WAS KIND, he was kind

he was kind and geeky and awkward and gay, I don’t care if the whole of society doesn’t find that compelling, I don’t care if we don’t value kindness as an attribute in men, he deserved to be loved and respected as he was, not as we wish he was

I am so sorry Alan Turing, I am so sorry your story was not told with care and thoughtfulness, I am so sorry you didn’t get to be shown to be deeply in love with the men you loved, I am sorry your great and terrible tragedy was never unfolded as a kind and brilliant man abused by a horrible homophobic system

You are a hero that turned the tides of history like no other and I am so sorry

Instead of saying sex isn't real, we really need to put emphasis not only on the spectrum of sex and gender, but on the following:

Human beings have been falsely classified as sexually dymorphic for ages

Approximately 4% of the population is documented intersex and that's just what we have measured. Many people are estimated to be undiagnosed and undetected intersex, because research is coming to find that determining intersexedness or sex morph in humans is far more complicated than looking at the outside and checking chromosomes.

Doctors in majority still actively avoid, omit, and coerce in relation to intersex variations. They also tend to manipulate data to minimize our proportional population size. They will often intentionally avoid, ignore, or deny a person who believes they may be intersex, dismissing it as "rare and detected at birth".

Intersex people are as common as if not more common than people with red hair and green eyes. That is only while acknowledging what is currently measured. Many people have lived entire lives and been found to be intersex posthumously, even when they never knew it in life.

Intersex people have always been here, worldwide cultures pre-Colonialism acknowledged this openly in a variety of ways. Colonial societies also still had intersex people and there is documentation of this fact in multiple convergent cases.

Intersex conditions are not inherently disabling, and even if they have disabling properties they are not "defects" but a variation of human experience.

Intersex people are the masters of our own autonomy and physiology. We make the decisions about whether we alter ourselves or not. Nobody else.

Intersex people are not tokens to further trans liberation, not without mutual aid and real solidarity. While bringing us up to prove that binary sex is a sham IS true, more people need to actually talk about our oppression instead of leaving it at "they exist".

More intersex people are fertile/virile and have children than you think. like. Way more.

You, yes YOU could potentially be intersex and never know it. It's up to you whether that seems likely and is worth pursuing the research and diagnostics needed to ascertain the truth. Intersexedness is not always visible or superficially detectable by the viewer of an individual. Not all intersex people look androgynous or have clearly ambiguous genitalia.

A variation of genitals, gonads, hormones, chromosomes, and similar sex characteristic properties are not innate biological or physiological dysfunction. These represent variations on the scale of natural human sex variations.

There is no default binary of human morphism or sex anatomy.

Intersex people are whole at birth. We must not be altered until we are of age to give informed consent on matters of our autonomous pubarche.

Not all intersex people are detected in childhood.

There are countless ways to be intersex, and we are learning more about human sex variations every day.

The phrase "Disorder of sexual development/DSD" has served a purpose at times, but is largely used in medicalist views of intersex people. These facts coexist. This pathological view perpetuates the idea of these things being inherently defective, and is used by doctors in the pursuit of minimizing and erasing our existence. I would not fault an intersex person for calling their condition a DSD, but dyadics should be wary of how they use this phrasing, or avoid it entirely. Not all intersex people like to refer to their intersex condition as a disorder.

The claims that PCOS can't ever present as "really" intersex are largely claims that come from dyadic bias or medicalism, not from the intersex community. PCOS and NCAH (which is undeniably an intersex condition) are so similar that most late diagnosed NCAH intersex people like myself mistakenly believe or are told they have PCOS first. PCOS that presents with hyperandrogenism is intersex, if the individual wishes to seek such community.

Intersex people would net gain more from normalizing that there's more of us than we realize, and that we are whole as we are born, than we gain from the view of our existence as a pitiable and incomplete disorderly state.

Intersex people choose our own identity and gender, like anyone else.

Intersex people benefit from the normalization of varsexedness, which is why we must show solidarity with the trans community, and the trans community should show the same in return.

If you do not have reason to believe you are intersex but identify with the alignment of intersexedness, you may identify as varsex! Intersex conditions are congenital and one cannot "become intersex", whereas varsexedness is an umbrella that covers intersex people and trans people of various sexes together.

Humans are sexually omnimorphic. Say it with your chest and support intersex people. Happy pride month y'all.

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