Okay so for context: I made a post about how I dont like the terms TMA/TME because of how exclusionary they are towards intersex people. I highlighted the existence and importance of acknowledging transmisogyny, but pointed out how flawed those terms were. I think talking about transmisogyny and intersectionality in general is important.

But anyways! I got a lot of supportive comments and some hate comments and this one really stuck out to me. Like. The blatant intersexism on display just really pissed me off. Like. Dismissing an intersex identity because you don't understand it is just Not It.

I feel like it's concerning how this person claims to be so into intersectionality when they cannot even acknowledge the existence of intersex trans people that are out of the norm of the transmasc/transfem binary. It feels gross.

sorry if i dont have my terminology correct, im just so tired.. my pelvis hurts and i believed it mightve been an issue with my appendix, i got an ultrasound. apparently my left ovary tissue got something going on with it idk.. my mom freaked out thinking it was a cyst, turns out after seeing a specialist my gonad is like half balls? like its testicles and an ovary at the same time? its not the cause of my pelvis pain though. neither is my appendix.
my mom is telling me that i have more woman genes and traits so it balances out the "half man balls" i got in me. when she gets like this i usually just clap back by saying thats not how it works but i dont really have anything to say cuz i just feel more alone. being biracial i felt alone but i also got both sexes?? i googled it and apparently its called being intersex so thats why im here, if its not or not enough to be intersex im sorry and i dont mean to invade.

So apparently I might be intersex. A little back story, I came out as trans several years ago and eventually had an orchiectomy. Post orchi I was on pills a while afterwards but at some point I switched to shots. That’s the point that I started having weird hormonal issues. I thought for the longest time it was because I wasn’t consistent with my shots. But recently I forgot to do my estrogen shot for a month and I slowly started feeling more energetic and better than I’ve felt in years. I ended up ordering tests through labcorp and the first one came back with an estrogen level of 67.3 pg/ml so I waited another month without taking estrogen and this test came back with a level of 161.0 pg/ml.
I just saw my primary care today and they did bloodwork to rule out a pituitary tumor. But I had a mri with contrast done almost two years ago on my pituitary gland because of some other hormonal issues and it came back normal, so I’m suspecting it’s still fine because I was having the same hormonal issues even then.
But yeah, I’m kinda stressed and don’t know what to expect. I know that they might want to do biopsies and the thought of one of those being done kinda freaks me out. Can anyone help calm me down? I literally have never even known anyone who is intersex (as far as I know) so I’m kinda freaking out and scared on what to expect.

A small trans+ and survivor led team at University of Hertfordshire are looking for LGBTQ+ people aged 18+ living in the UK with lived experience of conversion practices (CPs). There is a huge amount of quantitative research looking at harm and prevalence, which is vital, but there is such an absence of LGBTQ+ voices expressing how they lived through what they did, and what meaning they've made of it over time.

Please see the attached recruitment flyer for more information and the Expression of Interest (EOI) link if you'd like to find out more or take part.

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