Btw your curiosity about my body isn’t more important than my own safety, privacy, or dignity. You do not “have to know” why I use a mobility aid. You do not have to touch me or my stuff because you think it “looks cool”. You don’t have to ask me personal questions because you’re “just curious”. I don’t care if you think I look weird or if your kid has never seen someone like me before. I don’t care if you were “just trying to help” or if you “didn’t mean any harm”. My disabilty is not your excuse. I’m not your “get out of jail free” card. If I don’t invite you to touch me or to film me or to ask me questions, then nothing that you can ever come up with is a good enough reason to do those things. Stop prioritizing your curiosity over our privacy and safety.
Let’s also not forget the intersex kids who are forced into surgeries and hormones with no ability to consent.
Trans and intersex bodily autonomy NOW.
This. There are many intersex children who go thru puberty early, and most of the time intervention is chosen for us, not by us. Cis intersex children deserve autonomy too.
they don’t teach people with EDs how to actually respond to diet talk because to do so would mean cultivating and embracing rage. you can’t do that within a medico-psychiatric industry that mandates compliance at all costs. I would very much like to start a workshop for channeling & expressing rage, including and especially toward carceral institutions and authorities, for ppl with EDs… like I want to teach you how to terrify your doctor
Genuinely being a self advocate is 99% channelling pure rage
