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Originally Posted by Marc
I have talked to doctors in the past about my female gait. I tried to explain how my body feminized in my childhood and I believe the skeleton feminized and I developed a female pelvis. This would explain my female walk but doctors think it's all in my head. I have tried to show them my walk and had an x-ray done but they don't see anything wrong and in their opinion the x-ray showed a normal male pelvis. I have the frustration of going out in public and being riducled as to my walk and confusion as to my gender. When I see doctors and I show them my walk they give a few seconds of a casual look and then just dismiss it. I believe doctors have a certain belief that things are a certain way and what I'm trying to explain is not possibe so they resort to comments like are you having any mental problems. A karyotype was done which showed 46xy/46xx but was not seen as definitive as further tests showed 46xy. The biggest problem I've had are with doctors attitudes.
To me doctors have been more of a hinderence than a help, most of the things I've found out is through my persistence.
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I have to agree with you that doctors are less than helpful often, and that is a very generous statement on my part. Doctors are very frequently agenda driven, placing their personal assumptions of politics and religion, far above both science and any sort of medical ethics. Concerning intersex, those medical professionals involved, are about defending the status quo, and the welfare of intersex patients rarely if ever even crosses their tiny little minds.