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Claire Davis's avatar

Such a beautifully-written piece, Erin!! 🩷🤍🩵

I especially love these lines:

“New activists are rising, new voices are joining us, and across the country, we are planting the seeds of a spring that cannot be stopped. No executive order can silence a movement built on truth.”

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James Costich's avatar

This post is an encouragement for the intersex. We haven’t been erased because we never reached the point of being out of the closet. Our bodies - our anatomy, physiology and life experiences remain largely unknown by the general public. Sex is not and never has been limited to only two absolutes - male OR female. But while sexual orientation was once called @the third sex” merely because ppl fell in love with, made love to ppl of the same sex, and the transgender had to correct THAT - we intersex are late to the party. And now we are in fear of our existence continuing to be denied, our liberty and freedom continuing to be denied and the worst - our right to bodily autonomy continues to be robbed. Intersex infants and children are still being genitally mutilated with forced sex assignments pushed onto parents before we hit kindergarten. I’m one of the ones who wasn’t cut up. I have been inspired by many Transpeople through my life and am grateful for all who have helped us to grow into our authentic selves when the world demanded we lie. Bind the wounds, cover the scars, pretend you were born this way and that you still have the genitals, organs, and feeling you don’t. While the trans have been denied access to help or sold crappy “help” the Intersex were being mutilated with NO say in what was done to them. Forced gender and sex assignments are a crime against humanity whether it is forced on infants and children as it is with the intersex or needed and good surgery is denied to the trans OR whether mutilation is forced on male and female infants and children as a “right of passage”. What kind of perversion celebrates sexual maturity with an amputation of 1/3 of a phallic organ or the total amputation of it? Today and ever day is a good day to say that there is more to being men, women, and inter gender than genital shape. It must become a universal right that all ppl have autonomy over their bodies. Our bodies are the only thing we actually own in life.

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