
Maxima Inquisitrix Reipublicae
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Maxima Inquisitrix Reipublicae
@inquisitrix
"default leftist feminist" if the right's description of me is to be believed. she/her @inquisitrix.bsky.social





what’s a medical misogyny that you've witnessed or experienced that made you realize the system was never built for us?






Sex is a neutral description of human reproductive capability. Sex is not assigned—kinship is. Gender is who you kin.


I honestly think it makes perfect sense for trans women who have medically transitioned to refer to themselves as transsexual females, provided it's understood that this is a subcategory of male—since that distinction is essential for legal rights.

On the left is David Reimer, and on the right is Brenda Reimer. They are the same person. As a child, he was the victim of a botched circumcision, and on the advice of a doctor, his family decided to have him castrated and raised as a girl. For years, doctors presented the case as proof that a child’s gender identity could be shaped by upbringing. But he never felt like a girl. He rejected dresses, hated being treated that way, and struggled deeply with the identity forced on him. At 14, his parents finally told him the truth. A year later, he chose to live as a boy again and took the name David. He later married and became a stepfather, but the trauma followed him for the rest of his life. In 2004, David Reimer died by suicide at 38.















