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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 problems and help us lead the healthiest lives we can. That was never and still isn't where the emphasis has been.
Instead the medical profession's focus was on making us disappear. Even though I wasn't in the hands of the gender police with their phallometers and scalpels it was still what my parents encountered. It was rife with homophobia and sexism but VERY lean on relevant medical care. It still is!!
I never needed anyone to try to figure out my gender for me, or to tell me what I would have been if I weren't what I am. What the fuck is that? I needed help getting normal adult hormone levels for MY HEALTH. I needed to know I had CAH and for someone to give a shit about my abnormal adrenal problems. Not to measure my pee-pee and then try to sell me a phalloplasty and tell my parents that unless they did it no one would ever believe I'm a real man. So many intersexed people have horror stories to tell and they all involve the same thing - the medical profession sticking their noses into our crotches and refusing to do MEDICINE.
Jim
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