[Kailana]

Hiya there. First of all, let me say, that not all of us think as Sunshine, many of us Identify as intersexed, just as many do not. So your gonna get a mixed message i think, when publicly asking for help on intersexed related views.

As for a volunteer, well I would love to chat with you. I believe each of our history's is important. My own, well i just wish the medical community would actually just acknowledge it. I have been told my many its just the little rinky dinky little city I live in, that seems to be so uptight about Identifying or caring about what they say, or how they treat me. Just to let you know, I am in fact Intersexed. Diagnosed in 1993, during military service. Initially CAH, and later Karyotype, xy/xo. What the military, says i am is male/female true hermaphrodyte. <---- that is my diagnosis, but for some reason Non of my local doctors will acknowledge any of that. If you want someone who is willing to share, well here I am. My knowledge, while not perfect, isn't so bad. I do understand what it is like, being well different. As for people in general, i actually get treated really well, only issues i have is in fact with my direct family(parents, siblings), and local Doctor's, the rest of my extended family is pretty much ok with me, most have known more about me then i did. Even my two surviving grandparents are more open and honest and accepting of me then my parents are.

I am also quite curious to see your book, that has more interest for me then anything else. Basically most books that i have read so far, pretty much gives the tongue and cheek versions of what it is actually like to be I.S. Or to be raised as the gender opposite, to there genetic sex. I would really love to see/read what is actually typed, concerning, people like myself, who are infact truehermaphrodytes, and what it is like for them, not acknowledging one specific gender, but both, or if they are like me, who were raised as one gender(male,me), but choose to live as the other(female,me), cause i really would love to hear about more people like myself, I basically think Dr's, Surgeons are incompetent morons, All that was done to me, all there efferts went to waiste, just because they asigned me male, doesnt make me male, and lastly and most importantly, didn't make me happy. then again perhaps constantly being asked by doctors and family if i was happy as a boy, and me telling them no i am not, i should of been a girl, and everyone ignoring me, caused even more problems then should of been forced onto me.

Gee, i really could go on for hours. But last thing i want to say is and this is especially important concerning Sunshines views. Not all of us have an easy time being diagnosed as anything. Often many of us including myself, our records are refuted, what some doctors will acknowledge others wont. Which just leads too more problems being diagnosed and accepted within the medical community and within the IS community.