tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post8290325368182951202..comments2024-01-22T12:22:26.619-06:00Comments on The Intersex Roadshow: Dr. Cary Gabriel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14478058791195474381noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-76896961378696162142018-07-19T03:51:21.141-05:002018-07-19T03:51:21.141-05:00This is also a very good post which I really enjoy...This is also a very good post which I really enjoyed reading. It is not every day that I have the possibility to see something like this..<br /><a href="http://whatdaytoday.com/national-hotdog-day/" rel="nofollow">National Hotdog Day</a>Rumihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13249870686263049295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-10508064731292709092018-02-21T09:46:27.078-06:002018-02-21T09:46:27.078-06:00this is one of the best posts I’ve read in I-don’t...this is one of the best posts I’ve read in I-don’t-know-how-long, and I was nodding the whole way through. You nailed it, sir.angiehttps://ohmibodcams.eu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-59580392484056385862017-06-10T20:17:38.459-05:002017-06-10T20:17:38.459-05:00Again thank you for this article. I admit I had no...Again thank you for this article. I admit I had no idea there were so many variations, but this helps a lot. The illustrations are very helpful and the explanations aren't confusing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-64268704662680472742017-04-22T18:07:50.635-05:002017-04-22T18:07:50.635-05:00Thanks for this enlightening article & the pic...Thanks for this enlightening article & the pics.<br />I already read a lot about intersex. This shaped an even better picture than I already had.<br />When I read before I was already wondering if PCOS (polycistic ovar syndrome) which is said to be developing in the prenatal phase through exposure of hightened stress hormones and testosterone and shows later in symptoms like higher male hormones, polycistic ovaries, invertility, hirsutism etc. is a "weaker form" of intersex - like a step between intersex and "normal development". <br />I'm diagnosed with PCOS and have more facial hair, which I shave nowadays. Years ago I tried to be a hero & lived with it, but at a certain point the comments got to hurtful & I felt like a strange "thing", a monster. So I stopped. I could do this without a big problem, but you guys can't hide or change your intersex form. So I have a lot of respect for you and what you go through.<br />Thinking of PCOS in this context of a weak form of intersex was a very new view for me and I found it very interesting to see it here mentioned by you as well!<br />I read of a lot of intersex persons who don't identify exactly as man or woman but more as "inbetween", non-binary etc. <br />I also had always a part of me who felt more androgyn, didn't like the binary dynamic of male/female categories. Funnily in my youth the identification as lesbian was some sort of way out of the binary system (not identifying as woman, but as a lesbian), although it's a term abt sexual identity, not abt sex or gender. :D<br />Maybe being young today I would have identified as non-binary...<br /><br />It's so great to read from an expert (doctor) who is also intersex. Thanks for putting this all in the open and teaching us. I'm looking forward to go through your blog and read more :)<br /><br />I want to end my post with the wish & hope that all these child-surgerys will eventually stop and society will evolve to a more human one with a view from the heart on diversity, be it biological, sexual, racial or whatever comes to mind.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-17197420690112837282015-12-30T07:15:30.334-06:002015-12-30T07:15:30.334-06:00I have the intersex condition hypospadias. My uret...I have the intersex condition hypospadias. My urethral opening is located on the underside of the coronal head. There is one anomaly that I have that is of note. I have two (2) openings. A smaller one at the center of the corona and a larger one separated by a thin membrane. This anomaly was not mentioned in your summary. Urine primarily flows from the larger opening, but occasionally from the smaller one. I am a transgender woman and this anomaly has been a factor in my body dyshporia. I will undergo genital reconstruction surgery next month and all evidence of this condition will be erased. I have wondered if this intersex condition would be evident in a chromosome study as the physical evidence of the hypospadias will no longer be evident. Joi Sudelanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-7922164617079812692015-11-20T21:53:03.200-06:002015-11-20T21:53:03.200-06:00This is amazing. All my life I've felt both ma...This is amazing. All my life I've felt both male and female. I've known for almost a decade that my hormone levels put me exactly in the middle between "male" and "female". I had always felt bad about my hair growth, the size of my clitoris, and have other anomalies with my body. Thanks to this, I've realized that I am intersex. That my gender identity as genderqueer, genderfluid, androgynous is also my biological reality. That I just narrowly escaped being cut up as an infant and losing sexual pleasure all in the name of what's "normal". Thank you, thank you, thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514544923846310531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-11697503480596974432015-10-17T03:50:07.773-05:002015-10-17T03:50:07.773-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Arradhiyatul Mutiarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16732709124182513059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-70190991024214213732015-09-21T01:43:58.240-05:002015-09-21T01:43:58.240-05:00Yes, excellent comment!
I do not identify as inter...Yes, excellent comment!<br />I do not identify as intersex, and fit neatly into societal expectations but I am a student nurse and found this blog a fantastic resource as I am doing elective studies in sexology, which I hope to be better able to advocate for peoples' health and welbeing<br />I too questioned the ethics of circumcision when we were expecting our first child.. we had great midwives who were very supportive. It inspired my studies..<br /> I am lucky to have been exposed to a bit of diversity but without voices like this and the good Doctor here, how will society learn!<br />Your voice is important, thankyou for sharing.<br />Julie Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05906890041644210534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-18786242268356553982015-09-21T01:42:06.511-05:002015-09-21T01:42:06.511-05:00Yes, excellent comment!
I do not identify as inter...Yes, excellent comment!<br />I do not identify as intersex, and fit neatly into societal expectations but I am a student nurse and found this blog a fantastic resource as I am doing elective studies in sexology, which I hope to be better able to advocate for peoples' health and welbeing<br />I too questioned the ethics of circumcision when we were expecting our first child.. we had great midwives who were very supportive. It inspired my studies..<br /> I am lucky to have been exposed to a bit of diversity but without voices like this and the good Doctor here, how will society learn!<br />Your voice is important, thankyou for sharing.<br />Julie Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05906890041644210534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-80194607333421974632015-07-12T02:06:43.056-05:002015-07-12T02:06:43.056-05:00Wow! Holy shit - what an interesting blog! The var...Wow! Holy shit - what an interesting blog! The variety of things that can 'go wrong' "downstairs" when babies are born, are truly astounding! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-62532163030403226152015-04-04T14:36:38.110-05:002015-04-04T14:36:38.110-05:00Thank you for this; it was very informative. Mutil...Thank you for this; it was very informative. Mutilating the genitals of children has always seemed...so horrific I have a hard time reminding myself that this happens in MY country RIGHT NOW. How?! I've always seen circumcision the same way. There's no medical reason for it, but it's considered normal to have your newborn undergo cosmetic surgery? WHAT?<br /><br />This really speaks, to me, about how it's not only true that there is no gender binary. There's also no sexual binary. We're all on a spectrum, and we all have the right to choose our gender expression. We all have the right to seek or deny cosmetic surgery for OURSELVES with INFORMED CONSENT.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15225524146166207837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-20880621354693501162015-02-10T03:53:08.492-06:002015-02-10T03:53:08.492-06:00Perhaps by coincidence, It took me forty tears to ...Perhaps by coincidence, It took me forty tears to find a specialist who could recognize 17 alpha instead of 21 cah. There are a great many of us who know our situation, when doctors do not. - Tupungato.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-1747298046968088682015-02-05T19:04:08.319-06:002015-02-05T19:04:08.319-06:00Forty some years ago while I was at the doctors of...Forty some years ago while I was at the doctors office I noticed two words written on the outside of my medical file. ' severe chordee ' I have found your article and the comments fascinating as well informative. Thoughts and feelings I have had most of my life now make a little more sense. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-13245795737474006872015-01-30T02:31:38.400-06:002015-01-30T02:31:38.400-06:00From my previous comment, it is clear that I suppo...From my previous comment, it is clear that I support the idea that a functioning penis can be present with a pseudo-vaginal opening. In the additional research I have done, I suggest that it is unlikely that the pseudo-vagina is incapable (in-elastic) of accepting an erect penis without serious and ongoing dilation therapy. This is a hardship for many who are gender-assigned as female. Therefore I suggest the video to be a fraud. - Tupungato.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-70956022312810360732015-01-28T00:48:18.761-06:002015-01-28T00:48:18.761-06:00According to Johns Hopkins, one out of every 110,0...According to Johns Hopkins, one out of every 110,000 live births results in an intersex condition with unique pathology having no immediately discernible cause. Many of us also have genetic anomalies resulting in overlapping conditions. It is good to have found a website that is more interested in presenting possibilities than defending definitions. - Tupungato. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-88683533999904465222015-01-22T03:26:59.342-06:002015-01-22T03:26:59.342-06:00My uncle, an Air Force Sargeant, who fathered thre...My uncle, an Air Force Sargeant, who fathered three children, had a pseudo-vagina (as related to me by his wife). He was accepted into the military at a time of desperation (ww 2). His son had to get a Congressional waiver to join the Marines during the Vietnam era (so what was his disqualifier?). Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia version 17 alpha hydroxylase runs on both sides of my family. We have been marrying our cousins for over 1000 years. - Tupungato. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-82412302086002057942015-01-08T22:29:11.075-06:002015-01-08T22:29:11.075-06:00I have normal clitoris but it is internal... insid...I have normal clitoris but it is internal... inside my vaginal opening. During sex It becomes erect and is about the size of my little finger. I have never seen anything about this. Am I the only one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-89377647429364599952015-01-08T22:25:25.990-06:002015-01-08T22:25:25.990-06:00I saw a video of an intersex couple, each insertin...I saw a video of an intersex couple, each inserting their erect penis into their partners vagina and also each ejaculating. The video seems totally real. Is it? Can a person have a functioning penis and a vaginal opening?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-78453641234955265802015-01-04T17:09:29.897-06:002015-01-04T17:09:29.897-06:00According to the last part, since I have PCOS (I t...According to the last part, since I have PCOS (I think?) which alters my hormone levels to a great extent that I have many blended secondary sex characteristics (body (including facial) hair, fat distribution, muscle growth, clitoromegaly, etc)... Does this mean I'm intersex? <br /><br />I was made to take hormones and anti-androgens starting from end of middle school... In order to preserve my fertility and normalize my appearance (or at least attempt to).<br /><br />I remember all the MRI, CAT, blood tests being done on me. I even took urine tests. They tested for Cushing's, but never for CAH which seems weird. One of my older scans (I had to give copies to my nephrologist) lists "adrenogenital disorder" under my medical history. I'm sure I would've remembered if I had testing done for CAH... But apparently PCOS is supposedly a diagnosis of exclusion which means they /should've/ ruled everything out beforehand.<br /><br />Like I'm pretty sure I have PCOS because that is what I have been told, but I also wasn't given the full battery of tests.<br /><br />I hate how dissected I've felt for a great deal of my teen years, all because I don't look "normal". I have much sympathy for those who get even more pushed on them due to genital configuration present at birth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-53303342991635220992014-12-25T17:34:40.989-06:002014-12-25T17:34:40.989-06:00Nothing wrong with the size of your penis. Mine is...Nothing wrong with the size of your penis. Mine is 4 1/2" and I am "normal". Do nothing to compromise your sexual feeling!<br />PeterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-40416228626926191672014-10-15T14:27:09.137-05:002014-10-15T14:27:09.137-05:00Very good article.
i have hypospadias and slight c...Very good article.<br />i have hypospadias and slight chordee. The split and hooded foreskin can often look like a large clit. They seem to be very similar.<br />i have penoscrotal webbing to just below the glans.. like a large labia possibly. And chuck into the mix im small .perhaps 5' tops erect. When flaccid it varies...sometimes just an inch or slightly more. I am considering corrective surgery. Not sure of peoples thoughtsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-48418698393511808742014-09-20T05:47:26.431-05:002014-09-20T05:47:26.431-05:00Thank-you for writing this! It never ceases to hor...Thank-you for writing this! It never ceases to horrify me how happy our culture is with infant genital mutilation, whilst knowing that it is wrong when committed by any other culture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-56088185009123350602014-09-20T02:02:52.915-05:002014-09-20T02:02:52.915-05:00Habitual PS: One obvious subtext of my last commen...Habitual PS: One obvious subtext of my last comment is the need for a mechanism to ensure that intersex persons be informed of their condition at an early age (maybe 10 or 12). A process could exist for this to be deferred, but it should have to require a positive action on the part of the parents. The informative process should involve at least one session with someone who actually knows the material. We know too many stories of teens growing up in ignorance as to why they are different. Also, I may be too critical of my own slowness of self-recognition. I did eventually figure this out without much help. It did not help that when the obvious was presented to a doctor, the reply came back that I must be mistaken as 'ALL ambiguous males are turned into females. So there must be some other reason for the stitches'. Do they teach this in med-school? Johns Hopkins says the ratio of gender assignment is more like 60-40 in favor of female. Also I appreciate the anguish of persons whose sexual expression or enjoyment of sex has been compromised by unnecessary surgery. For some of us though, this is a shared hardship, but one of little importance compared to the daily challenge of living with the side effects of whatever condition put those atypical parts in/on us. My misunderstanding of heredity was one of assuming that genetic heritage had put A-B normal parts in/on me. "So what, most are gone now!" What I learned in time was that genes don't create parts. Genes enable or disable internal engines that create chemicals that create parts. An A-B normal chemical mix can allow a male to have some extraordinary variation leading sometimes to exciting possibilities (I often wonder about Andreja Pegic). But the chemistry that can put female parts in/on a male will often also usually guarantee that function will be compromised. The challenge to such persons (like myself) are the side effects of atypical chemistry which go far beyond gender expression. So while I did consider changing sex to female, I had to concede the reality that I was only marginally employable due to adrenal disability. The male-only jobs available to me would never have tolerated the obligatory 'transitioning'. I sometimes wish I could have become female while just continuing to present as male. Even this would have created such a trauma within the family that I could not indulge this impulse at their expense. I am grateful that In time I would become indispensable to the companies I worked for. But due to my lack of male competitiveness, the companies that would hire me were always marginal with marginal pay. For my brother, living from day-to-day is a challenge. I may soon be like him. Last week we met with a genetic specialist. For the first time we met a doctor who knew more about our condition than I did. For the first time we met a doctor who did not say "You can't possibly have CAH because you don't look like a middle linebacker". All of the previous doctors were only aware of the masculinizing forms of CAH. So the only treatment we have had is that which we design ourselves. I am still employed and we are still alive. So maybe I am intelligent, even if a bit slow. On the brighter side, the style in which I do my job of selling parts is based entirely on superlative memory. I have recently discovered that the cholesterol that does not turn into glucocorticoids makes me infection resistant (nothing normal can touch me); the cholesterol which does not turn into testosterone (I will never suffer from testosterone poisoning) does not disappear, but lingers as pregnenelone which is a memory and cognitive enhancing drug, So maybe all of the things I like about myself are a result of my A-B normal genetics, my disability, and my acceptance of this as a challenge. - Tupungato.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-14302531372229751532014-09-18T21:06:59.643-05:002014-09-18T21:06:59.643-05:00As a reply to Anonymous/ 6 sept. I would suggest r...As a reply to Anonymous/ 6 sept. I would suggest reading Lianne Simon's book available at "About Lianne - Lianne Simon". As a reply to Anonymous/ 17 sept. this is close to my situation. In my family, CAH (17a or 3beta, we will soon know which) recurs generationally, resulting in a casual familiarity with what we call 'thin (gender) dimorphism'. I was told by my mother (at age 32) that doctors 'took a while to figure out whether I was male or female'. It was another 10 years before I first heard the term "intersex" and another 11 years that I learned that CAH could cause this condition. So please don't mistake me for an intelligent person. In the meantime, I had grown up (quite obliviously) knowing that my grand uncle was said to be a woman, my uncle (father of three) had a 'pussy' (probably only a pseudo-vagina), and I was never to show anyone my male parts. In the meantime, I discovered at summer camp that other 13 year old boys did not have aa cups, could put on muscle in places other than hips and thighs, did not wait until 22 to start shaving or 33 for their voice to finish 'changing'. My ROTC friends taught me how to walk normal (John Wayne and Babe Ruth never seemed to get this). Although I could rock a size seven (with enough makeup), if I was on a topless beach, I would be equally disappointing if wearing trunks or a bikini bottom. I never questioned why my penis could not depress enough to be useful. I did enjoy being in an all girl witches coven at age 14, never suffering from testosterone poisoning (it affects 51% of the population), and hitting some of the same notes as Belinda Carlisle. Working in an ad agency I would sometimes pickup artwork (from clients that did not know me) wearing an AK2 (Donna Karan design) woman's suit. But the voice did change, the thick hair disappeared, and by age 50 I was shaving every day. Through all of this I never really figured it out. How many others? The worst part was how my few girlfriends would turn me into their older sister by the third date. Did they figure out what I had not? My greatest regret is the years I spent training for male activities my body would never grow into. So please don't mistake me for an intelligent person. - Tupungato.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506187185402877766.post-12116778504651380222014-09-17T08:35:49.117-05:002014-09-17T08:35:49.117-05:00Great article, I'd like to learn more about xx...Great article, I'd like to learn more about xx male and xy women, have you wrote something? I was wondering if someone is born intersex and doctors and parents select the "obvious" sex for the baby, creating the changes in the body, she/he can know that if they didn't tell anything? <br /><br />Thanks Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com