I’d like to ask for some help from any intersex followers I have (or any intersex folks who come across this post!)
I’ve been struggling a lot to find proper terminology for intersex issues in my research because Google is all gunked up and Tumblr is just as hard to parse through.
So, if anyone could point me in the direction of any good literature by intersex authors or any good online resources (especially that define terminology) that would be incredibly helpful!! I’m still doing work myself but any sort of direction would be wonderful!
(tl;dr I want to be a better ally to intersex folks in trans feminist conversations about sex/gender and approach my own theory with intersex experiences in mind better! So, any and all resources would be appreciated!)
Glossaries and terminology 📋️
- Intersex terminology masterpost by @intersexfairy
- Media and style guide by IHRA
- Intersex variations glossary by InterACT
Other Basic Things To Know 📣 (tumblr posts)
- Some common misconceptions addressed by @skelejon
- “Please stop acting like being intersex is just ‘cool quirky genitals’” by @identitty-dickruption
- “People need to understand that some intersex people find out late” by @none-gender-left-man
- The Social Model of Intersex by me
- “Unfortunately, most intersex people are not told outright that they are intersex” by @genderpunks
- Tumblr intersex polls without votes from non-intersex people by @queercripintersex
Intersex PSAs for trans allies 🏳️⚧️ (tumblr posts)
- PSAs for perisex trans people by @moonshinedyke
- Please remember AFAB/AMAB doesn’t mean “typical anatomy” by @asocial-and-antisocial
- “God I wish perisex trans people would stop tokenizing and fetishizing intersex people and our bodies” by @chaos-in-one
- How to talk about transition goals without being intersexist by @identitty-dickruption
- Examples of casual intersexism from trans people by @hiiragi7
- Exercise: Exposing intersexism in yourself by @hiiragi7
- “having issues with the term transintersex is not terf rhetoric” by @hiiragi7
- “In the United States, the people that are actually getting targeted with genital mutilation and nonconsensual hormones are intersex kids, not trans kids” by @trans-axolotl
- “I’m begging people at this point to realize that hate towards intersex people isn’t just. Fucking misdirected transphobia” by @theforesteldritch
- Make “space for ipsogender, intergender, and/or ultergender folks” by @queercripintersex
- “When there’s an actual discussion happening about biological sex and how it’s actually super complicated, it hurts to get excluded [by trans people]” by @queercripintersex
- In polls about gender, give options for intersex-specific genders rather than “intersex” by me, replying to @asocial-and-antisocial
- “Those are intersex animals, not trans or nonbinary” by @heckacentipede with a reply by me
- On supporting intersex people who want to go on HRT by @thehmn
- “Perisex trans people have been the front of people being intersexist to me” by @oy-gayvalt
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- “intersex trans people who can’t go on HRT for any reason are no less trans” by @identitty-dickruption
- An experience of being objectified by trans people by @genderpunks
Academic Literature 🎓️
- Holmes, M. (Ed.). (2016). Critical intersex. Routledge.
- Horlacher, S. (2016). Transgender and intersex: Theoretical, practical, and artistic perspectives (pp. 1-27). Palgrave Macmillan US.
- Orr, C. E. (2022). Cripping Intersex. UBC Press.
- Davis, G. (2015). Contesting intersex: The dubious diagnosis (Vol. 10). NYU Press.
- Reis, E. (2021). Bodies in doubt: An American history of intersex. JHU Press.
- Lock Swarr, A. (2023). Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine (p. 245). Duke University Press.
- If you don’t have access to a university library, copies of those and other intersex books can be accessed via the @intersexbookclub discord!
Non-academic literature 🧙♀️
- Intersex #OwnVoices books by Bogi Takács