Surf these sites: -- When I woke up one morning with blood on my sheets I thought I had contracted some mysterious disease, but eventually I realized that my lifelong feelings of "otherness" were actually more than just the alienation of a sensitive and lonely child. Staring at a medical gynecological textbook in the public library, I actually felt the crash in my in my head, the trainwreck of truth, my world accelerating into a blur of understanding. I was an hermaphrodite. -- A retrospective review of a male pseudo-hermaphrodite''s long road to recovery. "Why couldn''t I have been told the truth?" -- How easily words fall from lips: "Oh, you women are all alike." "It must be a female thing!" "Youre thinking just like a woman." "Whats that, female intuition?" Altar of the Oneiromantis -- Presently I identify as an intersexed person (hermaphrodite) born in a female body. It has taken me many years to reach this conclusion, because I had no means of understanding my own traits and characteristics and recognizing them for what they were. Big Things In Little Packages -- A personal account of my growing up with Turner Syndrome. CAH and our Family -- CAH and Our Family Camille Lewis'' Home Page -- Lots of detailed health information as well as fun computer geek, knitting, and family stuff. Definitions of Sexuality -- "I define my expressions of sensuality, eros, and love as nonsexual, because if they are nonsexual they are not rendered invalid by my asexuality. I define my love as authentic, because I define my humanity as complete and unimpaired." Different -- My experiences as an intersexed gay boy. Hermaphrodites With Attitude - Spring1995 -- Includes "Learning to Speak at 36" by Jane Carden (on testicular feminization), "Thinking of more surgery?" by IQ, a variety of letters including "Hermaphrodite and damn proud!" and "What I wish my parents had been told about hypospadias," and a poem entitled "I am intersex" by Lee. Hermaphrodites With Attitude Winter94-95 -- Includes "Hijras and intersexuals," by sacred dancing eunuch Anne Ogborn, an essay on a woman named Jean titled "Winged labia: Deformity or gift?", a personal journal entry by David titled "I am not alone!", and Morgan Holmes'' essay on "I''m still intersexual." Hermaphrodites With Attitude, Summer 1995 -- Includes "Becoming totally gendered," by Sam (Klinefelter''s), "Talking about it" by David, "Don''t forget to walk the jury" by Robin Diane Goldstein, and a poem titled "Rejection" by Gwendolyn A. Spencer. Home Page -- Welcome to my domain. The purpose of this site is to give information that I choose, nothing more. If you find any of this info useful, then great. My wife and I have been married since 1985. We have two beautiful kids --- Alexander and Ariana. Ariana was diagnosed with Turners Syndrome at birth. It was done to me when I was a newborn. -- From the FGM message boards. "I am an American citizen. I was born on 26 July, 1949, in Walla Walla, Washington. There were some problems associated with my birth. The medical records have apparently been destroyed. What I do know without any doubt is that at some point I was given a clitorectomy. I have no clitoral tissue. Otherwise I am a "normal" female, in that I have periods and I have carried, given birth to, and nursed a child. I am now entering the early stages of what appears to be a normal menopause." Justin''s Home page -- Hi there, thanks for visiting my home page. I have dedicated this page to my family, special my daughter who has Turner Syndrome, therefore you will find a lot of information About Turner Syndrome here at my page. Klinefelter''s by KS Patient -- Portions of a report which was submitted to ISGI by an intersex Pastor of a mainstream church. He has Klinefelter''s, but did not discover the facts until late in life. Both he and his wife are attempting to understand the complexities wrapped in body and mind. Lucky to Have Escaped Genital Surgery -- Eli Nevada, a legal female, has recently completed an undergraduate degree in Biology and plans to attend medical school in the Fall of 1997, with the intention to specialize in Endocrinology."As an intersexual who has been fortunate enough to escape surgery, I must voice my opposition to Dr. Sandberg''s views. I cannot see how my life would have been improved in the least by genital surgery...." Mythical Beast -- When I was ten, I found the word hermaphrodite in a book on Greek mythology, and for one moment, I knew what I was. I knew what girls were, and that I''d been told I was one. And I was, sometimes. I''d been told what boys were too, and that I wasn''t one. And I was, anyway, sometimes. So for just a moment I realized what I was. Personal Stories -- "If you have AIS or are the parents of an AIS child, we would like to hear from you. We will use this part of the web site to display people''s stories. Some AIS patients have found it very helpful to tell what happened to them. For many of us, it is a change to "say" those things that we sometimes have never told anyone." Shotgun Review -- "''Shotgun'' is about a wedding ceremony that took place a few months ago in Oakland. This apparently legally-binding marriage would not have received national media attention on National Public Radio and Out Magazine (the largest circulation gay/lesbian magazine in the U.S) had not most of the relatives and friends in attendance considered Anne and Suegee to be two women, although Suegee had recently become a man in the eyes of the law. Suegee was born physically intersexed, with some anatomical features that were neither clearly male nor clearly female...." The Limits of Gender: Mixing and Matching male and female biologies. -- "Somewhere in Canada there lives a 27-year-old blue-collar worker with a masculine genetic makeup, a B-cup bra and lesbian tendencies, according to a case study released two weeks ago in the U.S. medical journal "Pediatrics." A tragic surgical blunder turned a two-month-old baby boy into a eunuch in 1961. Through more surgery and hormone therapy, doctors transformed him, for all practical purposes, into a girl...." Tim''s Turner Syndrome Page -- Some information about Turner Syndrome and links to other sites. Under This Rock -- "I am an intersexual, assigned male as a child, yet actually a female. At times I have felt like some sort of disgusting creature who is only found in the slime under a rock. Creatures of the slime don’t seem to mind each other, slugs and bugs and such, all co-habitate in environments few find pleasant. It is not that living under the rock is our first choice, rather it has become our only choice. We have been chased, driven, pushed, shunned, and shoved until there is no other safe place to go. My Rock is Jesus Christ." Update from Japan -- "My name is Hasshi. I have partial AIS, and though I was raised male and given some hormones during childhood, I was never subjected to genital surgery. I identify not as a man, but as the atypical sort of a person that I am. Why should it be necessary to force a male or female sex on people who are different?" medical/legal/social issues: -- profile of a clinically-diagnosed born Hermaphrodite [Intersex] and presumed precedent-setting case of rectification of civil status without surgical alteration.
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