Happy Birthday Wyn

[Priestess]

Has it really been a year? It doesn't seem so long :birthday:

While you're blowing out the candles, I was curious about something. What's Wyn short for? I've seen names like Winter in use ...

[Clouds]

Already so soon? :martini_s :partysmil :cfs_flowe :grouphug0 :birthday:

[mohnblume]

From the "bodies" I received a mail this morning ... with congratulation for my birthday, which is not today ... so I am glad to pass these whishes to you. And mine on top of it, of course.

... and, they said something too, that I have not been visiting this forum for a long time.

However, Happy Birthday!

[Wyn]

THANK YOU for All your kind offerings. To say that the last two years have been a tumultuous time for me, would belittle the emotional rollercoaster I have been experiencing, both professionally, and, most importantly, personally.

Have I made ‘progress’? I certainly like to feel I have – in many respects. I don’t know if I can express to any of you the profound experience of TRULY maturing into an adult, at the grand old age of 48. Sometimes I find it hard myself to fathom the ramifications of my mutilation and assignment that have come to create my life experience.

As I’ve said before, Experience is the True reason for our existence. I have been blessed/cursed with a very unique experience, much as many of us, and have learned a great deal from it. If only the rest of our species could experience the same as Any of us – I feel that our world would be a MUCH better place if this were so. But, perhaps, this is just wishful thinking. If this were so, then, the uniqueness would no longer be.

In that vein, I do feel it is Our duty to inform our ‘normal’ brethren that what they have assumed / accepted as ‘normal’, is, quite simply, a False and incomplete assumption, however they may kick and scream “It Just Ain’t So!”

To do so will take an unending effort by all of us in the IS community. I don’t wish to place this burden unnecessarily upon those who do not have problems in their personal lives, firstly, because it just is Not my place to do so. Moreover, any action along this line will open them up to actions and perceptions that they would not have encountered if they simply carried on about their life. Just the same, the necessary effort will most likely will be required for many years, given the continuing use of ‘normalization’ surgeries, regardless of the increasingly available data and professional recommendations against such invasions.

I know that I will continually make a conscious effort to inform any and all who will listen to my story, of the terrible and life-changing consequences that result from the surgical actions taken against infants with intersex conditions.

Note; I STILL do Not like the “DSD” moniker. As I’ve said before, “Variations of Sexual Development – VSD” is a Far more inclusive and non-stigmatizing moniker than that of DSD. Simply my 2 cents on a contentious issue.

Anyway….Thanks to All of you for all your support, in whatever form it takes, be it active, or passive.

All My Best,
Wyn