*Deep breath*

[Ryles]

Hi, I really suck at introductions. You've been warned.

I'm not intersexed, I don't think I have any signs of it. I'd like to learn about it, though. I'm really interested in people who don't fit into male/female or man/woman. I'm transgendered, and I know that community can be ignorant and intolerant even towards itself, but I try not to be. :)

It's possible my partner is intersexed. Aside from genitals, voice, and body hair; they've mostly developed the way females in their family do. I don't really care if they are, I don't think they do either, the only concern is health issues and risk of infertility. :roll:

I'm new to this and will probably mess up on terminology a few times. So please forgive me if I do.

[Ryles]

(the 'edit' button isn't working for some reason- but please ignore the smiley after the paragraph about my partner. I'd added another sentence where rolling the eyes made sense, but decided to remove it and forgot to remove the smiley, and now it looks like I mean something weird. Sorry!)

[notodd]

turn on your PM.

[Ryles]

I think I turned it on. I didn't realize they started out off, sorry.

[Ryles]

I got a PM asking me not to post anywhere because I'm not intersexed and would make people uncomfortable. I didn't see anything in the guidelines- is that what I'm supposed to do?

If it is, I'm sorry for any discomfort I may have caused. I didn't intend to.

[notodd]

Actually, what I was trying to say was, that I agree that it would be nice to have non intersexed friends out there, but not to have them do what all the doctors do and start giving their opinions before understanding what it's like.

I didn't say you couldn't post, at all.

Please forgive me if I wasn't clear. Sometimes I'm a little dim.

Jon.

[galens47]

Welcome

[JOS]

Welcome to BLO Ryles

if you read back through some of the past posts, you'll see that there have been issues of people getting mixed up about things and I think that's all notodd was referring to. :wink_smil (... I suspect he was meaning just to give you a kindly "heads-up")

Many of us have had bad experiences of doctors/family being less than honest with us, so there are trust issues.

so sometimes when someone new comes, who hasn't really got the feel for this place, they can accidentally get into unpleasant discussions without even realizing they're on sensitive ground :)

nice to meet you

Jos

[Ryles]

Alright, I'll try not to do that. Thanks.

[Kailana]

welcome to BLO

first let me say thank you for your interest in learning more and your openness.

Now, BLO is a great place to learn just becarefull because many of us are touchy on a few subjects. But overall we are not so bad. Well most of us aren't so bad.

BLO is an intersex support forum and there is nothing wrong with a transsexual person offering thier thoughts but please remember that this forum is indeed meant for intersex issue's and amongst us well there are many.

hang around get used to the place and try not to judge people to harshly some members here are not so open to having outsiders giving opiniions but fact remains this forum is an open forum and as an open forum we are free to express ourselves and opinions and thoughts as long as we dont get too nasty that is.

there are rules but as long as you dont break them you are more then welcome to stay.

if you are having a problem with a member sending PM that are inappropriate then let the forum mods know.

they can help sort things out

and again enjoy the forum