Support Trans and Intersex people 🏳️🌈
Trigger warning: medical abuse, gender care
How the Ohio bill harms both trans and Intersex people. "The bill restricts the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgeries for transgender youth.
" The bill does not restrict the use of this care on non-transgender youth, and specifically includes an exception for intersex youth with ambiguous or abnormal sex characteristics"
How this bill goes against the will and desires of trans and intersex people.
The core right is that of self determination and the authority to have bodily autonomy.
In the case of trans people it's often to have intervention in the case of Intersex individuals like myself it's often a desire to not have interventions unless medically necessary.
So why the carve out because society doesn't care about what's best for an individual or respect that persons wishes.
There's a deep desire to enforce conformity and there's pressure on parents and individuals to continue the myth of binary sex and gender.
Thus for an Intersex person like myself we are often violated from birth to try and force us down a path that way we will "better" fit into society.
Parents are sold this is in the best interest because if we aren't given this conditioning that it could lead to emotional and social issues.
Well in my case because of this very practice I have many of those issues because they didn't take into account what my body was going to do during puberty or that it would reject treatments.
This is why even though because of my body having a mutation that makes it function like a cis womans I will never feel or accept that I'm similar.
Most women at 13 weren't taken to doctors and screamed at for not having their breasts removed. Or abused by there father's for not being able to pee while standing up.
If intersex is rare and exists because of natural mutation why would people deny the possibility that trans people also exist?
Be it a developmental trait, a hormone imbalance, an emotional social thing. As a society it clearly also exists. So just let them be.
It's not the public or the governments job to diagnose or care for trans people so let trained professionals do the care and keep your opinions and the government out of it.
Why can't people just let intersex and trans people live in peace. What's worse is many are actively making our lives worse and rally people to continue abusing us.
It wasn't but 11 months or ago I had a doctor tell me to my face I need to get my head out of the clouds I'm a normal woman and that I have to be realistic about it and what being a healthy woman looks like. (I was complaining that going on progesterone again started me having painful periods)
Is that really the way to talk to someone who clearly has complicated feelings according to their experiences and body identity.
I am just exhausted of the lack of compassion and understanding around trans and Intersex bodies.
