I no longer feel the need to discuss this with those who can't even open their minds to see past their fear over being called disordered. God forbid our diseases be seen for what they are, horrible diseases, and nothing more. We have them yes, but I won't be defined by my diseases. For you here who want so badly to be defined by our diseases so be it. I really don't have the energy to discuss this with the few who wish to stay marginalized and mutated. Jim your statements really have no connection to the guidelines associated with the actual DSD. That is why I will no longer be discussing this, nor visiting BLO. No one here ever even bothers to actually read the DSD guidelines before just dismissing them, or worse, simply out of a stigma of the word 'disabled'. I have other diseases, other disorders, maybe that's why I can actually read the guidelines before making completely illogical statements & arguments against them. I'll continue to do my one work with the DSD and with changing the medical paradigm. But my becoming disabled and then turning to the internet and this supposed 'community' as showed me that, for whatever reason, there is no community that I am a welcome member of where I can also help change the medical establishment. But I'm just not a girl who wastes to much energy, and I've already wasted to much with the supposed 'Intersex community'. Which has turned out to just as much of a misnomer as it first seemed, to me, to be.
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