[Kailana]

Really Im really really open, but then i usually get asked if i am TS so its pretty easy to talk to people. As a matter of fact i Identify as IS/TS/truehermaphrodyte. Basically a MtF(social phenotype) thats what people see, Intersexed true hermaphrodite. Name and everything else, and really the only problems i have ever had is within the medical community. There is alot of missunderstanding i think by Doctors, and occasionally a nurse now and then, but overall, in public i get treated fairly well. Sometimes i think being afraid of what people will think had more of a detrimental effect on my psyche more then how they actually respond to me. Most people are very interested in my life, sometimes I might get asked "why not stay male"? truthfully people seem to comprehend what it would be like to not fit your body, to identify as the opposite of what you look like. There seems to be a good deal of understanding when they just take the time to think about how there life would be if they were well born a little differently, if they had secrets, surgeries, name changes, gender changes kept from them, if they doubted how manly or womanly they were do to a genetic variation. Or maybe really they just see it that this is who i am, and can understand that too. I really think with openness, sharing our life histories, more people will come to understand just how unique a person can be and really just improve acceptance of people who are just a little different then what is typically expected for a man or a woman.