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A great way to celebrate intersex people during pride is to put up some of these beautiful (free!) posters to advocate for ending intersex surgery. Wheatpaste them around your city, put them up in your workplace and school, pass them out at pride events--the sky is the limit! Intersex people deserve to be celebrated during pride and we deserve allies who are willing to fight for our rights. It’s especially crucial this year, with so many bills being passed targeting intersex youth.
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To all my trans friends
To all my trans friends who are feeling hopeless...
To all my trans friends who have been beaten, ridiculed, and forced back into the closet...
To all my trans friends who have been told to 41% themselves...
To all my trans friends who have grown popular and faced inevitable death threats, bomb threats, and harassment...
To all my trans friends who don't pass and are frequently misgendered...
To all my trans friends who DO pass and are frequently misgendered...
To all my trans friends who are intersex, whose parents and doctors assigned them the wrong sex and tried to "fix" them...
To all my trans friends who have been called "trans-trenders"...
To all my trans friends who have been attacked by gatekeepers because they "aren't trans enough", or "are making a mockery of real issues"...
To all my trans friends who don't have the resources or support to transition...
To all my trans friends who have been legislated away by their home states or countries...
To all my trans friends who have been told your gender doesn't exist and is entirely delusion...
To all my trans friends whose families and communities have disowned them...
To all my trans friends who are often given dirty looks and snarky remarks...
To all my trans friends who have been told they're not allowed in their rightful space...
To all my trans friends who have been filmed and photographed without their consent...
To all my trans friends who have been used as a tool to spread right-wing lies...
To all my trans friends who have been denied life-saving medical treatment...
To all my trans friends who feel ashamed, unsafe, and isolated in their own community...
To all my trans friends who are living relatively comfortably but who often hear about the suffering of other trans friends...
To all my trans friends who have been impacted by the harm done to or death of another trans friend...
To all my trans friends who have cis friends or family who just don't understand...
To all my trans friends whose struggle is so bad, it makes them feel physically ill...
To all my trans friends who feel unwanted, who are sick of life and want to escape it all...
To all my trans friends who have been denied their dreams...
To all my trans friends whose feelings are hard to put into words...
To all my trans friends who feel a cold, heavy weight in their heart...
To all my trans friends everywhere around the world...
You are not alone. Keep speaking your voice; someone, somewhere, will hear you. Keep fighting for your rights, and I will be right there fighting by your side. I would give my own life if it meant all of you could live safely and happily. It's not that easy, though, so I will keep living to shine as a beacon of hope.
Our right to exist peacefully is backed by history, scientific and academic consensus, the ever-changing field of culture and linguistics, by our self-evident rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and by God's love for all humans equally. According to every philosophy they try to weaponize against us, we are correct. We are on the side of truth, no matter how many hypocrites call us delusional or selfish.
Love wins. Love always wins. Love is the fundamental value of the transgender journey; loving yourself, loving your community, and loving everything that is dear to you drives you to listen to your heart and achieve your true self. And I love you for that, so much.
You are much braver, stronger, and more beautiful than you realize. You've been through so much, fought so hard, and I'm so proud of you. Keep being you, always.
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sometimes looking around at all the trauma in the intersex community makes me exhausted. our rage & grief & pain is a lot to carry, but it's easier when we can hold that together. at the intersex conference one thing that constantly stood out to me was the fact that so many of us shared the same stories of shame and violence and loss, and how imagining intersex joy felt incredibly impossible sometimes.
and how we want to try to imagine it anyway, because we want to build a world filled with intersex joy and compassion and love, because of and despite of the trauma we've survived.
for me, things that brought me intersex joy lately are being able to hug another intersex person after realizing how similar some parts of our life were. going to a lake with six other intersex people and just feeling so confident in public together. seeing the beautiful art and writing that so many intersex people are creating. watching the Every Body film in a room full of intersex people.
anyway. if any intersex followers want to add on something that brings them intersex joy, please do.
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