Forum: Meeting Board
05-11-07, 11:30 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 498
developing a character
Hi,
Understanding what it's like to be intersexed is pretty complex. There are lots of different types of intersex, and lots of different degrees of intersexing conditions - and as many ways that...
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Forum: Places to go and see
02-18-07, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 419
Do you do these?
Dana,
Is this just cool stuff for us to have fun with or do you also do this kind of art?
Jim C.
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Forum: Meeting Board
02-18-07, 12:21 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 297
Welcome
Hi,
Welcome! You're getting a karyotype? That might be helpful depending on a lot of things. If you think you may be intersexed (have some physical characteristics that are both male and female...
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Forum: General CAH Forum
02-06-07, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,595
A Rose by any other name
Dana,
Like so many other intersexed people when I went to the medical profession for help with physical problems, they only cared about my gender. My mother took me to one of those hospitals...
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Forum: Meeting Board
02-04-07, 10:58 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 640
Health Care
I've come to realize that our most serious issue as intersexed people is inadequate health care. The medical profession is pretty clueless about how to figure out how to address our unique enodcrine...
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Forum: Meeting Board
02-03-07, 10:03 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 178
Around the corner
Hi Ian,
There is no support group here in Rochester, but there is me. I've been hoping to find enough people to start one for a long time. I used to be in counceling with Bill Kelly - MSW cert....
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Forum: Meeting Board
02-03-07, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 247
How it Went
Hi Everyone,
The seminar I taught went very well. There were only 8 people there but luckily only 2 of them had ever heard me speak before. These were people from a speaker's bureau who do...
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Forum: Meeting Board
02-03-07, 08:13 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,264
Tell it Girl!
Kara,
Please don't delay in telling us how this date comes out. Inquiring minds need the dish!!!
My intersexed friend Yann has terrible times with men. I have terrible times with women. ...
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Forum: General CAH Forum
02-03-07, 05:49 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,595
Part of the problem
Dana,
There really never were any guidelines for establishing intersex conditions because it really wasn't/isn't a diagnostic term. It was a blanket description for people who by whatever cause...
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Forum: Meeting Board
02-02-07, 12:15 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 640
Thanks for answering
Hi,
I got busy and haven't had a chance to keep up with my emails.
Actually, I've had nasty health problems associated with CAH all my life but because I wasn't checked for it (could they do that...
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Forum: Meeting Board
02-02-07, 12:15 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 640
Thanks for answering
Hi,
I got busy and haven't had a chance to keep up with my emails.
Actually, I've had nasty health problems associated with CAH all my life but because I wasn't checked for it (could they do that...
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Forum: General CAH Forum
01-29-07, 07:11 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 344
Looking for XX CAH Men
Hi Everyone,
I'm a long time member of BLO (years & years). For those who don't know me, until I was about 40 I thought I was a partially developed male and had been referred to as being a...
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Forum: Meeting Board
01-29-07, 07:10 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 640
Looking for XX CAH Men
Hi Everyone,
I'm a long time member of BLO (years & years). For those who don't know me, until I was about 40 I thought I was a partially developed male and had been referred to as being a...
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Forum: General CAH Forum
01-29-07, 12:57 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,595
Definately Intersexed
I was born with ambiguous genitals in 1957. I had no testicles, something in between a penis and a clit, no vaginal opening (fused labia). My parents wouldn't subject me to exploritory surgery in...
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Forum: Research and Announcements
01-28-07, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 446
For your paper
I was born with ambiguous genitals in 1957. I had no surgery. My parents were told that only exporitory surgery could tell what my internal sex was, but that was an extreme thing to do for...
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Forum: Meeting Board
01-25-07, 11:57 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 632
Not Time to Die Yet
Rahul,
If the "normal" people around you reject you it may be better to look for people who are gay or transgendered as friends because they will also know what it is like to be rejected for...
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Forum: Meeting Board
01-24-07, 12:33 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,264
Coming Out
Hi Kara,
I'm happily partnered in a closed relationship for the past year but in the past I was in an open relationship. I always come out right away, before the first date or encounter.
I figure...
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Forum: Meeting Board
01-24-07, 12:16 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 632
You're not alone
I have an intersexed friend who is from New Zealand but spent 12 years living in India. She is back in New Zealand again but will be traveling to India again.
She was born with genitals that looked...
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Forum: Meeting Board
01-23-07, 11:59 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 1,651
Confused
Rahul,
Which one of us did you want to contact you?
Jim
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Forum: Meeting Board
01-19-07, 10:37 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 1,651
answer
I didn't need a birth certificate to get a social security card, a drivers licence, a marriage licence or to adopt. I'm 49 years old and back then you only needed a birth certificate if you wanted a...
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Forum: Meeting Board
01-18-07, 12:40 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 1,651
Finding your story
I was born with ambiguous genitals, they put female on my birth certificate but that didn't seem right and I was raised as a boy - very happily. I didn't start puberty and had medical problems from...
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Forum: Meeting Board
01-18-07, 12:01 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 247
I'm doing an intersex info workshop
This weekend I'm giving a workshop on intersex and intersex issues to a speakers bureau at the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley - my local GLBT Community Center. The people of the speakers bureau...
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Forum: Meeting Board
12-07-06, 11:37 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 1,763
Comment on hormones
Hi all,
Hormone imbalances cause all kinds of health problems. Depression is a big one, and the female group is the culprit for that.
Excess testosterone gets converted to estrogen. I'm really...
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Forum: Meeting Board
12-07-06, 11:06 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 1,763
Checkin' In
Hi Everyone!
I've been very busy lately. Tomorrow, (the 8th & 9th) my partner Lee and I are singing in the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus Christmas show. I now work for the chorus selling ads. I'm...
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Forum: Meeting Board
11-22-06, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 380
The wrong Doctor
Hi Priestess,
I was 44 when my vagina was discovered. It was closed over and didn't need much more than a few snips to open either, although I was in a Doctor's office. I've never had periods...
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