poveglia:

starlingsongs:

fuckyeahsexeducation:

izzy-springbolt:

actuallyintersex:

purpleferretspirit:

murasaki-pengi:

fuzzyhorns:

fuzzyhorns:

L0031936 Credit: Wellcome Library, London 
Intersex Society of North America
www.isna.org PO Box 3070 MI 48106-3070
‘Phall-O-meter’ (Showing in actual scale current
medical standards employed to determine nature of
genital plastic surgery for children born with
mixed sex anatomy)
In copyright ? 
Collection: Wellcome Images

please reblog the fuck out of this

… what the— is this legit!?

Yeah it is. The phrase “three standard deviations below the mean” is the common reason for removing a male fallus and assigning the baby a female gender.

If you think about it, this actually sums up, pretty well, our society.

Unfortunately, this is nothing new and is still used today. ~Mod A

can someone explain this to me in Lehman’s terms pleSe? im confused and don’t know why everyone’s losing their shit because i don’t really understand the diagram

Okay, so there’s a wide variety of genitals out there. Here is a very simplistic chart of a spectrum genitals can fall on: 

Basically the clitoris and the penis are the exact same thing, very similar anatomy. Doctors will define it as a clitoris or penis depending on 1. if it has a urethra going through it and 2. it’s size. The diagram is the one they use to decide if they want to call the baby a girl or boy or intersex. Many babies are put through genital surgeries (sometimes without the parent’s knowledge or permission) to make them look more like a penis or more like a vulva which can cause many health problems as it is a surgery, or other problems related to being assigned a gender. Any kind of surgery that isn’t necessary for health should not be performed on babies because they cannot consent.

AND THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY SEX IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT!

i dont usually see tumblr talking about intersex rights and issues, so i am really happy to see this on here. please spread this information, because too many people dont know the truth about how intersex babies are assigned genders via surgery. 1 out of 1500 children are born intersex, and 1 out of 1000 children are given surgery to ‘normalize’ their genitals. this is a horrible and disgusting statistic that needs to be brought to everyones attention

october 26th (this sunday) is intersex awareness day, please spend some time reading about this issue. its extremely important and not well known

interactyouth:

Check these quotes from new intersex advocate & activist Hanne Gaby Odiele! We are so proud of her and the work she is doing to raise intersex visibility and stop unnecessary intersex surgeries! 

i-singanyway:

thelesbianguide:

madystacy:

starlingsongs:

assignedmale:

Assigned Male - A webcomic about a transgender girl

Last update for Intersex Awareness Week.

This information is CRUCIAL!!!Everybody needs to know about this! Because you might be Intersex and not even know, and if you intend to ever have children you must be ready to raise an intersex child and defend them against doctors who want to etch their anxieties into them surgically.

Intersex

Your sex binary system can go fuck itself.

This is the shit that keeps me up at night

thesaurzu:

foureyedlemon:

gayanimal:

black-quadrant:

trans-wife:

And every one of them deserves equal respect. Feel free to share and reblog this. No credit needed. ^_^

really fun with pride coming up!

i didn’t even know we had our own lesbian flag :O!

I’m  l aughing so hard at the heterosexual flag I ca n’t even be mad at it it’s so fitting

i corrected it for you

There! It’s even better now!

And let’s not forget akoiromantic:

cupioromantic

demiromantic

greyromantic

and polysexual!