Intersex Discussion

Happy to find this forum but now it looks like there is no one left in the intersex space. Hello?

I have always known that I was androgynous, both male and female in my personality and identity. Though my outward social persona has been male from the beginning, it crossed my mind a few times wondering what it would be like to be fully female, but mostly I have considered this the best of both worlds to be both. It was the greatest gift when, in my twenties, I discovered that I have an almost hidden female part in addition to my male anatomy. It gave physical three-dimensionality to my inner experience and I feel much more whole or complete. I feel extraordinarily fortunate to be both male and female, and it has enhanced my relationships with my female partners. There'…

i am a transitioning mtf person. i am a vegan. i have experienced a lot of bloating. i am taking hormone type herbs. i have had the thought that i could be pregnant, or growing female organs. i am concerned some, at least, and have various questons. how effective is urethra expanding devices and what is the outcome? what abortion and birth control drugs or methods are good for transf people? what are other options? what could be the cause of the bloating? also maybe an extra here about vitamin supplements, the role of folic acid.

I realized last night that I had hypospadias and bilateral cryptorchidism. I learned last night that I had a surgery at three years old to move one testicle down, and there was also some work done on my penis which I was told was a "circumcision" (this was 1972). Regardless of what the circumcision op was, I still had mild/moderate hypospadias until my sex reassignment surgery 20 years later. I only learned last night that I had hypospadias and that I had bilateral cryptorchidism (as I was never told obout the surgery to correct one of the testes). Another part of my story is that the testicle that remained in my abdomen got torsion at age 11 and was rendered nonfunc…

I brougth my sis-in-law back stateside /w my wife & I: then quickly found out about her having CAH (non salt wasting). She is a high function Austism (sp), very shy, & a littly clingy. But, she tends to want to skeep /w her blue feeldoe & wear her share-sx during the day; even though she is "well endouded" enougth to urinate as a male due to her partly fused inner labia. Should my wife & I try to encourge her to 'act' female at leat some of the time, or just leave her be?

A second meeting of activists for intersex rights has called on the medical community and the UN to respect their rights 13 December 2012 | By Anna Leach " The demands included the ending of genital surgeries to 'normalize' and selective abortion on the grounds of intersex and ensuring 'the personal, free, prior and fully informed' consent of the intersex person before medical procedures." -gaystarnews.com Second international intersex forum demands doctors change their ways

Gay Star News interviews the director of Intersexion, a new film that tells the story of the one in 2,000 newborn babies who don't fit neatly into a pink or blue crib 15 February 2013 | By Anna Leach " 'Intersex isn't uncommon, it's just unheard of,' says one of the 20 interviewees in Intersexion, a new documentary about people who aren't male or female that is showing this month at Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival and next month at Melbourne Queer Film Festival." --gaystarnews.com 'It's a baby' - the truth about intersex (w/Video)

Hey, this IS NEWS . CNN news reports that Germany will allow a Third Birth marker on Birth papers ! Just in from CNN News sources : I bet a close friend of mine who is Intersexed and Austrian Born is probably THRILLED to see this . She has suffered a lifetime of abuse and I was so sorry to see her have to leave the states as her Visa had run out . She knew she could never go back to Germany . Her father was an SS officer in WWII. He had put a price on her head ! Mary - Anne , if you see this , Ellen sez howdy ..............

Good afternoon all. I am new to this forum and wanted to chime in on some items that I think should be explored in the DSD, intersex, hermaphrodite arenas. I know that this thread is a bit long and I hope that people find it helpful. Even being my first post here, I would hope that it opens up a discussion and doesn't violate any protocols on the forum. I would love to explore my own personal journey, but I wanted to answer an older thread without reviving a zombie thread. If I overstepped any bounds please accept apologies ahead of time. This subject is of great interest to me and I wanted to answer with some gus…

Hi there! As the title reads. I'm just trying to get to know what it is like to be in your shoes .. what makes you happy, unhappy, what annoyes you, etc.. I'm an ally lesbian cisgender friend here.. So , if you care to share,and have a 'nice/complicated/relaxed, whatever your mood is like chat'.. please write here.. either from an intersex perspective or just from your everyday life view, etc... Let me start.. hummm; "what makes me happy?"... lately;.... I'd say food!! Lolololo... life is tough, and I have food to hug me, what can I say!.. maybe you've been there... "What makes me annoyed ?"..hummm.. I guess the feeling that I will always look for someone tha…

Intersex surgeries spark move away from drastic treatment Apr 17, 1:18 AM (ET) By LINDSEY TANNER CHICAGO (AP) — She was born to a young Chicago couple, named Jennifer, and grew into a beautiful long-lashed child with wavy dark hair, big brown eyes and a yearning, youthful desire to be just like all the other girls. Only she wasn't. Doctors first noticed her slightly enlarged genitals, and then discovered she had testes inside her abdomen and male chromosomes. And so began a series of surgeries to make things "right." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150417/us--med--intersex_children-696841353c.html

Kalidasa, considered the greatest poet and playwright in Indian history, describes shiva and shakti (male and female entities) as inseparable as a word and its meaning or a letter and its pronunciation. This is often depicted through the androgynous/hermaphroditic form of shiva, ardhanarishvara, literally meaning the god that is half (or part) female.

Introducing Tony Briffa, Mayor of Hobsons Bay (Victoria, Australia) National LGBTI Health Alliance Board Member Gina Wilson says: “Tony is an inspiration and a role model for a whole generation of intersex people, both those who have suffered early interventions and those who have come to their differences later in life..." Read the article: The Amazing, Heartbreaking Story Of Tony Briffa, The World’s First Openly Intersex Mayor On his website, Tony Briffa writes: “I feel very comfortable having accepted my true nature. I am not male or female, but both. I am grateful for the years I lived as a woman and the insight and experiences it gave me. I am still …

on these grounds: 1. insufficient evidence that atypical genitalia leads to psychosocial distress 2. the surgery can cause severe and irreversible physical harm and emotional distress 3. they violate an individual's right to personal autonomy over their own future http://oii-usa.org/4325/former-surgeon-generals-call-for-mor-unnec-intersex-infant-surgeries/

Posted 7:48 PM, December 30, 2016, by Mariel Turner For the first time in the United States, New York City issued a birth certificate reading “intersex” in the gender field. On December 15, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene corrected the original birth certificate of Sara Kelly Keenan, born in Brooklyn 55 years ago. She received it in the mail at her Santa Cruz, California, home on Tuesday. “It was wonderful. It was the first time I saw ‘intersex’ in print related to my name,” said Keenan, an addiction life coach. “When I applied in court, I chose ‘non-binary,’ because that’s an umbrella term that would also include gender variant people.” More here: http…

Hailey Branson-Potts | July 20, 2016, 6:00 PM "When Zzyym, 58, was born in Michigan with ambiguous genitalia, doctors initially left the sex designation on the birth certificate blank, according to the lawsuit. Shortly after birth, Zzyym’s parents decide to raise their child as a boy named Brian Orin Whitney. The birth certificate was filled in as “male.” " --latimes.com Intersex person who was denied a passport over gender designation sues U.S. government

'Intersex' must be listed in a separate category in new Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, Australian Senate hearing told 26 January 2013 | By Anna Leach " LGBTI rights groups and legal experts told a Senate hearing into a new Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill on Thursday that the word 'intersex' must be explicitly included as a separate category to be protected." --gaystarnews.com Include intersex in Bill, say lobby groups and legal experts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/01/23/model-hanne-gaby-odiele-reveals-she-intersex/96622908/

I love this video (part 1 of 3) by Pidgeon and the t-shirt, "too cute to be binary" (so true).

Michael Magnusson, 21 Jan "Briffa said the attacks were motivated “purely because of my genetic intersex condition, sexual orientation and gender identity.” "Briffa was born with the rare condition called Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Although genetically male Briffa was raised as female, undergoing female hormone therapy." --gaynewsnetwork.com.au Intersex councillor awarded intervention against stalker