Intersex Discussion

What is Intersexuality? The term "intersexuality" comprises a large number of medical conditions that involve congenital abnormalities of the reproductive system. (1) People with an intersex condition are born with chromosomes, external genitalia, internal reproductive organs, and/or an endocrine system which do not match either male or female norms. Environmental factors, genetic factors and developmental factors all play a role in intersex conditions, but the causes and presentations of each condition vary widely. How common are intersex conditions? Estimates of intersex condition incidence range from 1 in 100 (2) to 2 in 10,000 (3) depending on the precise …

Intersex Resources: Links to Online Resource Sites Intersex Society of North America Organization Intersex International Intersex in Australia The U.K. Intersex Association Bodies Like Ours Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG) AIS Support Group Australia, Inc. Klinefelter Syndrome Support Group Turner's Syndrome XY Turners Genetic Mosaic Support Group Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser Syndrome The Hypospadias and Epispadias Association (HEA) This list is compiled for those seeking more information and online resources regarding intersexuality. Please add other resources by replying to this discussion thread.

Hi, my name is Gennee. I am not intersex but I desire to know you and understand what being intersex is. I am a transgender individual who believes that we should support one another. I guess that's my intro. Gennee :)

I've been a healthy male as far as I could tell for the last 21 years. However as of late, especailly do to commentary by one of my girlfriends i've kind of questioned if I was really born a normal baby boy. *warning, next part is a wee bit descriptive and blunt* As a treat to my girlfriend, I did the whole "porn start cut" on my penis and scrotum. While she loved it, she noted that I had a pretty wierd scar along my scrotum leading down pretty far toward my anus. She even noted it felt there were scar tissue from stiches. Now at the time it wasn't that much of a concern, since I was otherwise pre-occupied. However after the incident I began to examine what she…

My hips spread during puberty (like I'm as wide as my mom) and I think I have a very feminine face. There are also other things I've noticed, like I've been told that my nipples are "really big for a guy" and I have no hair on my chest and my brother and father do. Is this enough information for me to know that I'm intersexed? Oh, and I'm a male to female transsexual, so there must be a connection between this and that, right? I feel like maybe I started to develop as a girl as a fetus and then something went horribly wrong and there was a switch of some kind. That might not make sense, but whatever. I do have what seems to be a fully functional penis, although I…

Hi, I'm new on here. For all my life, I've been wanting to being a girl and denying and supressing it. I've only now admitted and decided to live with it. However, I think I may actually be intersexed. A lot of my body features and shapes are distinctly female. I also go through mood swings and emotional changes in ways that women do and guys don't. My bodyhair is light, on my arms and face (I can't grow a real beard, even if I don't shave for weeks, just some dark fuzz), although moderate on my legs. (although I suspect that's a genetic feature of being Italian-descended). So, is it possible that I've got something generating estrogen or something similar in me? Is…

There is So many Variables on intersex life births and Reasons it happens . Humaity has this Trait inbred in all our chromosomes DNA Not all doctors will pick up on this Genotype and part of humanity sadly many times untill later in life as one asks why do I feel or ct this way etc !!!! Sexuality is very under estimated in Gender's Intersexuality traits happen to develop in gestation and begining of development some babies have decended testicles or undescended sexual organs ill call ovaries & (testes ) Yet some Females that are assigned female @ birth can have a ovary actually (teste ) descenbd and it happens s…

I've just been a little bit curious about this lately, and it's probably nothing, but reading things from google got me wondering. This is for any genetic male out there who still has male genetals. I've never seen another man's scrotum in a very definitive manner, and I've never seen the area behind the scrotum at all. But I've noticed that when I feel that area with my fingers, there's kind of a rigid area between the legs(behind the scrotum). I was wondering if all guys have this. I..erm...tried looking there in the mirror but I kind of put myself in dangerous positions trying to line the reflection up. I've read somewhere that the rigid line down the middle of the scr…

Just a heads up that the Oprah show today is about the Intersexed. Tune in if interested!

I was doing dishes this morning and thinking about various recent conversations and posts on the Internet when something hit me like a ton of bricks! I am in my mid-50s and grew up with a very strong female gender identity and (seemingly) pretty normal male genitalia. The only oddity was that, at puberty, I had both some male and some female development. Because my self identification was strongly female and I hated the “male parts”, I started self-medicating very early (about 14 years old) and tried to swamp any masculinization with estrogen. I lived a dual life for many years (female and androgynous). I had genital surgery at age 24 and took to my new life like a fis…

I ran across this site today. The revised Harry Benjamin Standards are saying that one is not transsexual but rather intersexed. I was wondering what others thought of this. To me, it makes perfect sense Billie Jo http://www.harrybenjaminsyndrome-info.org/soc.html

I firmly believe a soul is a soul and no mattter what we are born as regardless of human and parental /surgiical procedure's etc determining the gender of a newborn infant's gender if there is a ambigious or not popular reason to the parents / surgeon to so to play alpha omega no one knows the consequences and mind set of that child till they are of a age of rekoning i would rather leave this decisive manner up to the young child at a ager that they can make their own decisu\ions or know who they are by preliminary observatiions till that child develops into their own soul because the soul is probably imbeddeded in the 2nd week / month of conception and e…

A have read across the various websites full of research into the different types of intersex and one concept still confuses me. Ovotestis. Wikipedia seems not to have a page on them. My understanding is that they are basically a combination of an ovary and a testicle. But some thigns are left unmentioned by most places I've looked. What type of cells do they produce? -Sperm -Ovum -OvoSperm? Where are they found in the body? -Where Ovaries should be? -Where Testicles should be? -One of each? -Somewhere in between? How many are there? -Is it possible to have two ovotestes? When (If ever) do they generate cells? -Ovaries generate Ova before even bei…

Contrary to belief There is alot more to life than a group of misled aggrivated individuals who strted A orginization based on Their Opinions and not My opinion ... Let's face it if you breathe and can put on your panties or underwear then what is there to whine About ? #2 Complaining about choromosomes !!! Blaa Blaaa Blaa dont whine just Drink it ... DNA well !!! Guess What !!!! it is Life Again Life has to be something ......... Wow Look it is special !!!! Lets celebrate A toast to DNA it is not as bad as many people think ... If you seek Sadness and Problems then You shall Wallow in Them ( THESE Things I will call Negative..)…

I have determined over the years I was born intersexed and am trying to get some answers...this gets personal. All of my seocndary sex chacteristics are female, and i never hit a male puberty and my voice never changed physically although I did start forcing it down after i grew breasts. I have no recollection of genitalia before i was 4, and my natural testosterone level was 347 before ever goin on hrt. before my grs....I had a scar that looked like fused labia. said scar heated up, got wet and could cause me to orgasm incessantly. when that scar was being...aroused, my quite well endowed male genitalia receded all the way up inside me to where the 7 inches of male, and …

Somehow there is alot to A 4 letter word We call ( Love ) No matter what sexuality or sexual preference humans are or seek we all need Companionship / Love usually follow's somewhere in this cosmic trail of life . Intersexuality is Devine in A special way. I hope IS individual's realize how blessed life truly is . There is no wrong or right way to live ( Technically ) imop . What brought me to write tonight this particular hour is as I lye in bed next to my spouse I realize Compatibility is A denominator of our companionship . My life is complicated but I am A fun woman who is proud to just be me . Sure so many people judge eachother and all it…

A Un Fancy schmancy Hypothetical Statement for Humanity without any Offense to anyone intended . Just A View or Opinion but Gender is Not A Choice By The 6th to 8th week approx Gender is Pre Determined Supposedly ..... So they Claim Let's put Gender this way is it A choice ? Nope Do you think Gender is A Choice ? initially We As All Fetuses Started out as Females ( Yes ) To A Great extent ! You dont need Albert Einstein or Dr Ketala Rubenstein to tell You what Gender you want to Be Factually it is Just Part of Human character to be Your own Gender Identity .... Ok That Sums that up Read on .... There is no such thing ( Name ) As …

;) Hi there again Everyone I got A good Thing I Wanted to post here for the longest time and it is actually quite simple and Educational This lasyt few Weeks with hurricane bashing Fla and the lower half of USA I Was A nervous Wreck COURT ETC..... I had so many things going on at all the same time !! amazing and Stressfull too I found out that If you truly are positive minded and Can not let things get to you that the obstacles we Face everyday What ever they are These are really lessons !!!!I had to finally go infront of A Judge and Go GET SOME BUSINESS SQUARED AWAY THAT I WAS PROCRASTINATINATING ON So i…

Twins can be identical, fraternal and apparently semi-identical, scientists now report. Read more... This story provides an intriging clue to the nature of genetic mosaicism. In genetic mosaicism, a single organism is thought to grow out of two or more fertilized eggs. The process by which they would combine into one embrio has never been satisfactorily explained. I think it is possible that the theory is upside down. I find it more likely that people who are a genetic mosaic result when a multiply-fertilized egg does not divide into semi-identical twins. This would imply that genetic mosaicism is far more common than previously thought.

Good morning to all I been thinking long and hard on What intersexuality is about or a way to Define it's logic or misconceptions . Many of times a human being like myself has a unique trait or Quality As Referred to like secondary sexual characteristics etc.... Somehow Our Mastergland the PITUITARY GLAND may over produce or induce a gland or cell to manipulate somehow...in Fetal Development Life is full of unexplained answers and somethings are better left unsaid IMOP I know what About dolly the Sheep ??? Bhaaaaaaa its Dead Cant mess with mother Nature God We all scientifically can summarize Fetal development as A Life …

Dear people ; Somewhere in the forum here I seen / Read A artcle I think pertaining to my use of Capital letter's I sincerely want to appologize for my typographical errors and stuff in capitals it is just a bad habit that I just noticed. Sorry for everything about the Typing blunders As a human We all have weaknesses and often are prone to make mistakes so I say to you all I am forever sorry . Sincerely ; Judy Hug's to all ... Lets all put the past junk behind and move forward.

:) Today is one of those day's Right now Super early in the morning and I am still Writing ... What am I Crazy or why do I Overthink so much ? Anyway's Somewhere behind the screen My theories or Abstract Writing Style's Envoke , Catch your attention because Sexuality is Interesting . To me Sex is Fun I love it Factually it is Very healthy for most anyone and no matter what style or position you and your mate ( partner) end up in Remember Sex is Definitely one of the Healthiest Forms of Excercise and Burning Calorie's . What made me write this topic is My love for Our Gender Community / Society I think about everyone of you all every day an…

This is something iff'y but Tricky and touchy to Define in word's but We As humans must do What we feel is Right To Be Whole As A Person Gender Wise . Year's ago Sometimes @ Birth it is not Uncommon that Medical intervention is Used to help alleviate The Worries amongst young parents / or parent's and Dr's or Midwifes etc. This stuff goes back long time but it is hard to define To the Beggining's of Mankind .. Being a Organism with both Sex organs is Able to live is A Devine gift . With this being Spoken There is Curious Clues ( Medical )( Explanations ) but not Totally Factual as to what causes Hermaphroditism' Mank…

Intersex Solidarity Day November 8th Nov 8, '06Press Release - Please circulate widely From: The Organisation Intersex International www.intersexualite.org Subject: Intersex Solidarity Day November 8 Herculine Barbin’s Birthday The Organisation Intersex International would like to invite you to join us in commemorating November 8 as Intersex Solidarity Day. All human rights organizations, feminist allies, academics and gender specialists, as well as other groups and individuals interested in intersex human rights, are invited to show their solidarity by organizing workshops, lectures, discussions and other activities which deal with any or al…

Well, I was wondering about a few things... because I'm having an intersex character in my story... that I'm making. Anyways, what do intersex's use for pronouns? He? She? IT? And, is there anything else I should know?