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Are Queer Maps Part of the LGBTQIA+ Community?

Content warning: mention of sex, genitals, and pedophilia I’ve shared a lot of very personal things on this blog over the years, and today I’m going to share another personal piece of news: I’m intersex. Most people think that there is a rigid binary between people who are born with vaginas and people who are born with penises, but the truth is that there are a lot of people who have genitals that just don’t fit into this binary. There are also people who don’t have the expected corresponding internal organs, hormones, and/or chromosomes that generally fit with their genitalia. The truth is that I don’t know much about being intersex. I’m in my 30s, and I just now found out that I’m intersex. At the risk of being TMI: my genitals aren’t that different than those of a dyadic (or non-intersex), cisgender (or non-transgender) woman. At least, they never seemed like that to me. I was an early bloomer. I started having sex as a very young teenager, when I was ignorant about what typic