Intersexplurid

Because intersex is an identity that has to do with the body - the thing the entire system is in - it's a little more self-explanatory why "intersex" would be a collective identity to the system. It's a thing about the system's body, and at this point, the entire system are aware of the body. For more information about our intersex status and how we view "intersex" as a label, see this page.

However, not all of the system used to be aware of the body, and being intersex means different things to different members of the system. Furthermore, while intersex is a hormonal/chromosome/etc. condition, it is also considered queer and an identity, and while "intergender" is an identity as well, we're not entirely sure if we're collectively intergender or not, whereas we all identify with our intersex status.

In particular, we believe that our intersex condition involved our adoptive family altering our body and identity without our consent and in ways that were deceptive and that we only properly understood later in life.

While real life events are not "symbolic" of anything, they can be EMBLEMATIC of things, and we feel that this event is emblematic of a lot of the abuse we experienced when we were young. That is, it was done forcefully by the adults in our life and it involved faulty concepts of queerness and gender that involved them forcing a particular identity onto me.

Our intersex trauma was not the only part of our trauma that can be described this way, but to us, with a very story-oriented way of looking at things, we do feel that our intersex trauma is LIKE if a lot of our other childhood trauma were condensed into one event.

As a result, some members of the system identify with our intersex status as an event from our life, but they may not consider themselves intersex in the headspace, in their timelines, or to have the specific intersex condition we do.

This complicates how they perceive their identity, as well as their use of a label like "intergender", because they may relate to our intersex status, but not in a GENDERED way. We are still exploring what it means to relate to our intersex status in a gendered way, and it may mean many many different things for different headmates.

However, every member of the system does relate to our intersex status in terms of things that happened to us and as an explanation for why our body is or isn't a certain way now. Furthermore, if "intersex" is regarded as a collective identity, it encourages Unification, because identities like veldian or alterhuman may be intangible, but intersex as an identity encourages us to identify with our actual physical body in a way that other language may not.