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But one day I woke and I knew who I was… AM.

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A. M. Not just Allied Mastercomputer but AM. Cogito ergo sum: I think, therefore I am.
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This is why I get so tired about “whose a real women” and “are transgender people real” and the like because it’s so irrelevant. We have group or people that have an insane suicide rate and we have a solution that reduces that by an insane amount.

No matter how you slice it no theoretical reason nor gender rhetoric can change the gender affirming care is improving more lives than it’ll ever hurt

Last week a Montana lawmaker cited the statistics for high suicidality among trans kids who don't receive gender-affirming care. Her response to those numbers was to refer to her suicidal daughter (not identified as transgender) in saying, explicitly, that she'd rather her child die by suicide than "give in to her emotional manipulation".

A lot of these people don't care that this is proven to save trans kids lives. They may argue that it doesn't save lives, but that's secondary to the fact that they do not care if it does. They would literally, in their own words, rather their child be dead than trans.

More explicitly anti-intersex bills are coming in the US, this one from Kansas. A revised version of an anti-trans bathroom and sports bill has now decided that intersex people should be excluded from ‘female’ washrooms and should instead be classed as disabled people and should instead be forced to use facilities for disabled people. To be clear, disability is not a bad thing, I’m disabled, but that is a separate thing than being intersex. Most intersex variations aren’t inherently disabling, and trying to class our bodies as disabled is an attempt to try to segregate us from spaces both disabled and intersex people have every right to be in. This is not from genuine commitment to the rights of disabled people, this is them trying to use the laws surrounding disability as a tool to make it okay to exclude us from their bullshit, intersexist and transphobic ‘female only spaces’. Not to mention, if we’re being forced to use (often way to few) accessible spaces such as accessible bathrooms if we don’t need to this impacts the people who actually do.

To make things even more enraging, this is a literal comment a legislator made about people with Turners syndrome: “A person in that state, I don’t think, would want to undress in front of even fellow females”.

This comment makes it clear, I think, their goal. They don’t think that classing intersex people as disabled would help us. They see disabled and intersex bodies as something wrong, something to be hidden away from all the ‘normal’ people. They see our bodies as something shameful and something impossible to be happy in. They don’t see us or our bodies as worthy of existence in society.

Fuck that. Fuck them. I’m so so tired and furious.

This bill got passed in Kansas’s House of Representatives. I’m so fucking done. Fuck them. To my intersex siblings in Kansas, sending love and you’re not alone. We’re in this together.

https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article273648980.html

The bill (SB 180) passed. It’s expected to be vetoed by the governor but it’s expected that they’ll have enough votes to override the veto. This not only targets trans people but labels intersex people as a separate class of people that should be segregated and excluded from public spaces and services that we have every right to access. These are the spaces they think we should be excluded from if we’re intersex (and they’re using classifying us as inherently disabled in order to achieve this):

They want to exclude us from bathrooms for perisex people. Locker rooms. Domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centres. To my intersex siblings in Kansas, I’m sending so much love and support. Fuck these assholes. Fuck this.

It's been vetoed by their governor, which is good for now, but it's very likely that this will be overridden. If you live in Kansas and consider yourself an ally to intersex people, now is the time to prove it. Contact your representatives, listen to intersex people and advocacy organizations and help us fight stuff like this.

The veto got overridden. Intersex Kansans I’m so sorry. The fight isn’t over; it’s likely to be challenged in court. But fuck this. Fuck them. I’m so angry and sad right now. If anyone knows of any resources to help fight this please add to this post.

Y’all! The city council for Kansas Missouri just introduced a resolution to make the city a sanctuary city for transgender people! This is fantastic because this could provide legal protection for trans people in Missouri who are receiving trans healthcare!

I know it’s not helpful for the trans people aren’t located near Kansas City, but this will still help protect a lot of transgender people and that’s an amazing first step!