This blog has been getting a lot of traffic as of late. I don't know what popular twitter dweller recced my blog, but I don't like that, so I figure now is a good time as any to make this post: I am a guy with a blog, not an activist.
By which I mean: to me, "activism" implies "community" and "coordinated actions." "Activism" means that at some point you reached out to people like you, sat down at a table, and discussed alright, what are the things we all agree upon, what are our priorities to make things change, what are the tangible actions we want to undertake.
Now, I am an intersex person with the lived experience that goes with it. I have intersex friends. I have read up blogs & accounts of other intersex people. I've read stuff by intersex organisations and activists. As such, I think I can safely say that I am a lot more informed than the average person on intersex issues, and that's why I went ahead and made this blog (so maybe people will have an easier time finding an intersex perspective on things rather than wade through 30 "god I wish I were a real-life futa" altersex blogs) and I do some work to spread intersex awareness outside of this blog as well. Still, it is important to remember: ultimately, I am just a guy. My word is not law. While I don't think I've ever said anything that goes against what intersex organisations say, I'm sure plenty of individual intersex people will find issues in the stuff I talk about here (first exemple that comes to mind is the use of the word "futanari." I know some intersex folks consider it a slur that should never be used. Personally I would rather people keep using "futanari" for the fetish because very clearly they use "intersex" for bigenital people otherwise, and I find that worse.)
If you are a perisex person reading this blog and wanting to learn more about intersex issues: that's great! I'm glad you're educating yourself! But I encourage you to cross your sources and double check the stuff I say. Don't just go "oh, this blog states X, so that must be true!" Do some extra research too.
It took me a very long time to start openly talking about being intersex/trying to spread intersex awareness/etc because I am painfully aware that to a lot of people, I am the first intersex person they've ever seen, and so my words have a lot of weight behind them. A weight I'm not sure I can shoulder. But I decided it was worth it to speak up anyways, because the alternative is clearly that people don't hear at all about us, and then go off thinking that we're some mystical unicorns with fully functional dick and balls who are magically accepted by society and not subject to really fucked up oppression.
Everything I say on this blog is stuff I believe. But I am One Guy. I am not immune to biases, propaganga, or any of this other bullshit. And neither are you, or anyone else. Any singular guy who tells you "yes I know the objectively correct (tm) way of thinking for this group of people" is either stupid or has an agenda to sell you.
Don't just believe everything I say blindly. Cross your sources. Please. I am a singular guy trying to spread awareness for my people. The last thing I want is to have my words twisted away from me to hurt my kin.