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So, do you have a penis or a vulva?
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A few people who read my profile's presentation often ask me this, and it's ok to ask, it's not a
conventional thing I'm trying to point at there after all. The
simple, conventional language version is I was born with a penis. Yes, the world calls it that, and you'd probably call it that. Mystery solved. I'm no
intersex or anything. Penis and testicles. The
novelty comes from me picking other word to assign to this physiological
reality and then I rebeliously choose to call it "a
vulva", "my vulva", regardless of its shape differing from most other vulvas,
because.. why not, right? I'm a girl and girls have vulvas, that's the
reasoning. So I.. uhm.. theorize? that there might just be different types of vulvas, with mine being one of them.
But why would you -someone could say- call your penis a vulva if, hey, it's a
penis, anyone sees it and says "oh, look, a penis!"? Well, it helps me keeping gender
dysphoria at low, you see? and sends a message to the world that I'm woman, like any
other, regardless of whatever shape my genitals had at birth. It helps
with loving and accepting myself and my body as it is, as I am, with them, not
thinking there's something "wrong" with me or with us trans people, but
instead with how the world decodes our bodies and gender identities
assigning us one or the other just out of what they see on our crotches at birth. The result is I need not to fix anything down there by absurd
surgeries, but it's the world that needs a fix, needs to fix itself, its culture, its
mentality and laws to start seeing and accepting us trans women
as women, simply.
That's it.
Of course in the end of the day I know it's "a penis", yeah, conventionally, I mean, people call
it that, right? physiologically it looks like one, it works like one. I
have no issue with it being called a penis (I will call it that too at times) but to me, internally, at a
deeper level, it's my vulva, my vulva was shaped like that, in the same
way not everyone's noses or ears have the same shapes and sizes, I claim so does
people's genitalia. For practicality though, I myself will call
it a cock, dick, penis sometimes, and other people can still call it
that too.. Absolutely no problem with that.
So here's my proposal. Let's quit already deriving the name of people's genders out of names assigned to their genitals, and start deriving the name of people's genitals instead out of their genders! which only each of them is to determine, shall we?
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Posted on : Oct 24, 2025
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