I began reading about this stuff about 10 years ago, not when I was actually diagnosed, which was about 10 years before that but when I learned what it actually "meant". Since then I've been trying to educate people about intersexed at birth and to underscore that the unnecessary alteration of infants is not only cruel but unwise, especially if at the same time you are going to base their rights to marry on a perfect alignment between their physical gender and sexual orientation. You might even be interested to know I posted *this* a few weeks ago.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fixx/180435.html
Looking over your profile yet further I opened your website. OK wow I missed that. Oops! It's mothers like yours that make me want to see laws that make christianity and parenting mutually exclusive practices.
I really have no idea if I was altered at birth or not. My mom was pretty honest with me, or so I hoped, and she never suggested there was anything weirder about me than what I call "a cleft foreskin" and I think that if they'd done anything they'd have circumcised me also and they didn't so I think my condition is essentially natural.
But I understand about the hormone shots. I missed most of my puberty too and had my puberty in my early 20s, but a crazy one because my testicles actually work a little bit so this crazy doctor was overdosing me. Another doctor told me I didn't need that at all, but then for 10 years I was chronically ill before I came up with the idea of simply taking lower doses, which is what I'm doing right now and I'm in the best health of my life physically speaking. Emotionally speaking is another matter.
I'm a member on this website which I'd assume you'd know about but in case you don't here it is.
I've opted to direct you to a news page which is currently on my mind. It bugs the crap out of me that we can talk freely about FGM overseas as a form of terrorism but if you talk about it as something that goes on in THIS country it is considered indecent and worthy of a fine.
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Date: 2005-12-08 12:24 am (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/fixx/180435.html
Looking over your profile yet further I opened your website. OK wow I missed that. Oops! It's mothers like yours that make me want to see laws that make christianity and parenting mutually exclusive practices.
I really have no idea if I was altered at birth or not. My mom was pretty honest with me, or so I hoped, and she never suggested there was anything weirder about me than what I call "a cleft foreskin" and I think that if they'd done anything they'd have circumcised me also and they didn't so I think my condition is essentially natural.
But I understand about the hormone shots. I missed most of my puberty too and had my puberty in my early 20s, but a crazy one because my testicles actually work a little bit so this crazy doctor was overdosing me. Another doctor told me I didn't need that at all, but then for 10 years I was chronically ill before I came up with the idea of simply taking lower doses, which is what I'm doing right now and I'm in the best health of my life physically speaking. Emotionally speaking is another matter.
I'm a member on this website which I'd assume you'd know about but in case you don't here it is.
http://www.bodieslikeours.org/content/view/289/183/
I've opted to direct you to a news page which is currently on my mind. It bugs the crap out of me that we can talk freely about FGM overseas as a form of terrorism but if you talk about it as something that goes on in THIS country it is considered indecent and worthy of a fine.