One of the conversations we have far too rarely within the LGBTIQA+ community is the intersection of race.

Watching this interview brought tears to my eyes. I know the pain of being judged as a white queer Intersex woman. I know what it means to be pressured into performing certain roles to make myself smaller, quieter, or more acceptable in the eyes of others.

But I also know that I have not faced the same depth of injustice that comedian Tommy Davidson as a black man has.

There is no genetic boundary that makes intersex or transgender people more likely to exist within one race than another. We are born in every community, every culture, and every corner of the world. Yet when the voices we hear, the stories we platform, and the people we elevate do not often echo that we must be willing to ask why.

The problem is not that Black and brown intersex and LGBTIQA+ people do not exist.

The problem is that too many have been made to feel that our spaces were not built for their voices, their needs, their pain, or their leadership.

I was born in the Bronx, New York City, and raised by a single mother on welfare while my father denied involvement in my life starting from paternity.

I began in circumstances shared by many people from marginalized communities. But as I grew older, I came to understand that my whiteness made the ladder easier for me to climb out. It did not erase every hardship, but it opened doors, softened judgments, and offered protections that others were never equally given.

Acknowledging that truth does not diminish my struggle. It deepens my responsibility.

So let this be a space where we do more than simply welcome conversations about race. Let us seek them out. Let us listen without defensiveness. Let us elevate the people who have too often been spoken over, spoken for, or forgotten entirely.

Because the history of intersex people and the history of the entire LGBTIQA+ community is also an untold history of race.

That is one reason I fly the Progress Pride flag with the intersex symbol at my home. To me, it is more than decoration. It is a declaration.

It declares that our liberation cannot belong only to those who are easiest to see, easiest to hear, or easiest for society to accept.

It declares that we must remember, honor, defend, and elevate the most vulnerable members of our community.

And it declares that none of us are truly free until every one of us is given the dignity, safety, visibility, and power.

I hadn't watched it in awhile and realized maybe some people have never seen it. Intersexion documentary was shot and produced between 2010 and 2011.

So some things are dated but many are still relevant and it has some key people in the movement who helped advocacy speaking out.

The blurb "The documentary was researched and presented by intersex activist Mani Mitchell and features numerous established intersex activists, including Cheryl Chase, Pidgeon Pagonis, Hida Viloria, Tiger Devore, Anne Tamar-Mattis, and others. Its central message challenges secrecy, shame, coerced normalization, and medically unnecessary childhood interventions"

Just felt it couldn't hurt for more people to know this exists at this moment in time.

I feel for our entire community and want people to stay safe and never give up.

Note the organization also has lots of data available on the topic in which to gain knowledge.

Greece TV show features Intersex character apparently first time an Intersex character has ever been on one of their prime time shows.

I had wondered my first time hearing about "Reception theory" : Reception theory is the film theory approach that focuses on what viewers do with a movie, not just what the film puts on the screen. In Intro to Film Theory, it treats meaning as something made in the encounter between the text and the audience. A film does not carry one fixed message that every viewer receives the same way.

That shift matters because earlier models often imagined the audience as passive. Reception theory says viewers actively interpret, fill in gaps, and bring their own expectations to the screening. Your age, class, gender, nationality, political views, and prior movie knowledge can all shape what a scene seems to mean.

This is why reception theory pairs so well with film semiotics and structuralism. Semiotics asks how signs in the film work, while reception theory asks how different viewers read those signs. A close-up, a color choice, a costume, or a piece of dialogue can suggest one meaning to one viewer and something totally different to another.

The idea that an Intersex life could be better without also helping others is not possible unless we work together with other minorities we are doomed in the US.

Together we are strong that is why they spend so much time trying to get us to have internal conflict when the goal we was kn

Since the US ended the suicide hotline focused on LGBTIQ + millions of LGBTIQA+ individuals have less options to turn in there time if need.

We as a community have to be there for each other now more than ever. 🌈

The same group that brought the Anti trans panic has now decided they want to end all women's sports and end all empowered overly feminist confident women because it has destabilized and ruin society the core quote by why they must end women sports overall.

"Accommodating Nature: Toward a Better Way

The current Title IX regime as applied to sports (and elsewhere) is part of a sustained social engineering effort that is designed to produce a new sort of woman—one that is more aggressive, more competitive, more male, less relational, and less oriented toward the goods of family and motherhood. This project is deeply controversial, especially when viewed through the lens of history."

"Conclusion

Equality under Title IX does not require identical outcomes or the erasure of sex differences. It requires opportunity rooted in human nature that will reveal genuine differences between the sexes."

I keep trying to say it will never end. history repeats itself: The first block to fall was them overturning roe V wade, The second was the 1000's of laws they have passed against trans and intersex people without so much as a passing glance at facts.

What's next seems to be access to healthcare, more attacking of immigrants and now trying to end the concept of empowered "feminist women."

Unless they are defeated politically and then punished to oblivion for usurping the rights of the constitution we all have been promised they won't stop and neither can we.

I. a U.S. prison, they handcuffed a Rastafari man to a chair, beat him, and forcibly shaved off his religious hair.

Then, when he sued over what was done to him, the Supreme Court told him he had no grounds under the law to hold the state officials accountable. Protect of religious differences is in the constitution the Supreme Court should read it sometime!

What the actual hell are we doing?

How much more clearly does it need to be said?

In the United States right now, if you are not part of the mainstream if your religion, race, identity, body, culture, gender, sexuality, disability, immigration status, or very existence makes you different you are not safe.

A blue state might give you more protection. A local government might recognize your rights. You might have constitutional protections written clear as day on paper.

But what does any of that mean when people acting with federal power over the states can do whatever the hell they want. Beat you, violate a sacred part of your religion, even kill you and then the highest court in the country can leave you and your loved ones without a meaningful way to hold anyone accountable?

Do not tell minorities and marginalized people that we are being dramatic.

Do not tell us, “It could never happen here.”

It is happening here.

If you are part of any minority community, please protect yourself. Stay aware Know who you can trust. Put yourself, whenever possible, in a position where people who hate what you are cannot easily hurt you.

It is horrifying that this is where we are, but survival may be the most immediate thing we can ask for right now.

Survive.

Protect each other.

Remember what is being done to all of us as an LGBTIQA+ community member I am tried of going to funerals for my friends.

And hopefully we all live long enough to see the day when America becomes something better than this and lastly Vote if you can it may seem pointless but it's one of the only actions we have left.

The best way to ensure Intersex rights is to also defend trans rights. Even if you're a Intersex individual who is not trans the laws targeted towards them collectively hurt all Intersex.

The social pressure to throw one group or another under the bus is part of what is holding progress back we must unite and in solidarity start moving the nation back in course.

Stan Lee at Marvel had a philosophy he often shared with people: “Every comic is someone’s first.”

I think that is often forgotten in many communities. I have been active on Intersex Reddit for six years and involved in the intersex community for more than 20.

But I still remember the day I found out I was intersex. I was 16 and had several unexplained health issues. My family was no help, and the doctors I had seen in the past had been abusive. It was not long before that when my mother tried to have doctors remove my developing breasts without my consent. When I refused, the doctors did not explain anything to me. They simply told my mother that they would not perform such a surgery if I was so firmly against it.

So, at 16, I sued for independence and was finally able to walk into an endocrinologist’s office on my own and learn the truth. The movie quote, “You can’t handle the truth,” comes to mind. Finding out that my family knew I was intersex, lied to me, and had been abusing me for years—not because they were unaware or uninformed, but because they had already decided who and what I should be and how I should live—sent me into a spiral that ultimately led to a suicide attempt.

As fate or luck would have it, I survived, and I have been trying to support and educate people ever since. I never wanted another person to feel the way I did in that moment: alone, desperate, and without family.

It has been deeply disturbing to watch my country become worse for our community over the past 20 years. I know that, had I been in the same position today, I would be even more afraid because the social climate in the United States has become so objectively unsupportive.

So, never feel that any question is stupid.

Everyone discovers or learns about being intersex at a different time and place. Some people may not yet be in the right headspace to understand or fully embrace themselves.

Wishing everyone who reads this only the best,

Icegirl

"As shown below, in terms of gender identity, the majority (65 %) of intersex respondents identified as trans or non-binary and gender-diverse. "

It's not an opinion about the diversity of Intersex people.

We exist as every gender every sex every sexuality thus just because some people might speak for Intersex who aren't the idea that no diversity exists or that trans and non-binary people can't be Intersex is false.

Infact based on the studies as especially with Younger people there is ever more crossover of identity.

If people thought comments on the trans brain theory last week was evidence we don't as a community and mod team support trans people clearly you didn't read the post.

We are clear that some trans people are Intersex just not every single trans person is automatically intersex.

Someone told me about this term today hadn't heard it before wonder what people's thoughts are of it?

If you live in the United States, the UK, or many other countries where the right wing is taking over and perverting the status quo with xenophobia and bigotry, you are not safe.

The attack on “immigrants” is not the end; it is the conditioning. They have already killed a veteran who was helping an assaulted woman, targeted a lesbian couple simply driving through a neighborhood, and carried out countless wrongful arrests where the mere perception of someone being an outsider was enough to trigger their wrath.

Does anyone genuinely think that people capable of these acts are not frothing at the mouth like rabid dogs, waiting for the chance to maul members of the LGBTQI community?

And as for intersex people who think, “Oh, they would never come after me. In my case, it is just a health condition”—these people were born and bred from the cloth of white supremacy and eugenics. There is no safety in trying to reason with people like that.

We must resist and encourage everyone else to do the same with every ounce of energy we have left.