[Dana Gold]

Well, as I said earlier, I have little confidence in either (intersex or DSD) established regimens due to the very thing both you and Priestess have pointed out......the issue of accepted gender protocol. As for what you've said about trans people, Melissa, well....the same can be said of many intersex people that feel negatively about trans....and you have been one of the ones who have "lashed out" at both intersex (here at BLO) and trans (in your posts)....as have done some who regard themselves in the DSD camp. Something about being trans (and not envious and hateful of intersex) seems to bring upon one the situation of being universally disliked...but, as I have to say, some trans have brought on the shit by their own "idiosyncrasies". When I first came on board here at BLO; I found out that some trans people who were already diagnosed with a intersex/DSD found themselves not very liked by either the trans or intersex "communities". This is worse than a slap in the face; after being shat upon by the "normals", to be pissed upon by both of the former. So be it, and I now do not consider myself to be a "member" of the trans, intersex/DSD, and especially the GLB "communities". I am my own person, however I can empathize, to a certain and limited degree, with those who are gay, trans, intersex, and DSD....since I have many of the same "enemies" and experiences, including medical issues related to the hypergonadotropic hypogonadism of "unknown etiology", which ironically, I had to point out to both my PCP and endo, the ramifications of certain health issues brought on by such....because, as you said, the prevailing concern was the "gender identity disorder". It is for that reason that I sometimes do not feel kinship with the majority of humankind and many times rather than wishing I had not been born; I wish I had not been born on this wretched planet. All I've wanted for most of my life is to be left the f**k alone and live my life as I was and am without having to conform (which I did anyway) in order to be accepted and liked ...and without all of the hysteria/paranoia, and socio-religious concern over my perceived "homo/trans-sexuality" by the normals and then the scenario of having my self spoken for and judged by some of the LGBT (not all gays like the "trannies") and scrutinized by some intersex/DSD folks....although, generally, I must say, that my experience here at BLO has mostly been positive...and I am thankful that I came here. It is, as I've indicated earlier , human nature that brings on the strife and accompanying negativities toward others and oneself.

PS: I'm only trying to be fair and conscious of each individual's needs and desires when it comes to the DSD vs intersex issue.......the reality is some will always feel better about one or the other....and I, for one, will not counter or argue against that reality....the freedom of independent choice by that individual.

Dana