Have you heard this statistic?

[Peter]

I have heard the 80% figure before from some people who support the DSD nomenclature, but it was in a different context than mentioned above. The version that I read was that 80% of XY karyotype intersex people have conditions that cannot be genetically resolved. That is a very different statement than the statement that 80% of all intersex conditions cannot be genetically resolved. So, you might want to have your friend re-check their sources.

Peter

[shelly]

I can't put links on the site until I have posted 5 times so the best I can do is to have you copy it and paste it to your browser search bar.

I don't know if the link says that 80% can't be diagnosed, or that 80% can't be resoved genetically. I just know that 80% is an awful lot of people to have a doctor not be able to help them.

I know that for myself intersex has been a curse because people think penis = male and that I have had so much estrogen running through my system for so many years that I feel anything but male. I am not sure that estrogen blockers woud help at this point because my brain has been altered, my skin has been altered, and I have to bind my breasts in public. I live this male in public, female at home existence that others might find weird, but I think is normal for me and someone like me.

I don't think there is anything a doctor can do at this point but send me all the way over the fence to female, but I don't want to come across as a post op tranny, as the psyciatric community still considers this to be a mental disorder, anyone relate to this and how do you deal with the family members who just won't hear out the truth but just want you to pretend to be something you aren't in their presence? My mom just travelled 5 states to see my sister who lives one mile away, but made it vey clear that she would only see me as male when she was here, and never even ended up showing up. I literally got sick from the stress it created and am depressed to be quite honest aobut it. Hurting myself over other people's hang ups is not an opiton, but I just haven't gotten my stride back yet. OUCH!!! I didn't do this to myself with hormones, is there that little love in this world?

[panduwinata]

Originally Posted by shelly

I am not sure that estrogen blockers woud help at this point because my brain has been altered, my skin has been altered, and I have to bind my breasts in public. I live this male in public, female at home existence that others might find weird, but I think is normal for me and someone like me.

You are exactly like me, shelly! Oh my God.
About our feminized brains: my psychiatrist has told me that the lack of androgen and the surplus of estrogen from my feminized testicles has caused my brain to be irreversibly female. There is no way estrogen blockers would magically transform our brains into male brains.
And about your mom: I have the same relationship with my mom. I'm only 23, yet I'm scared to death about the rest of my life with her. . I'm scared she'll hate me forever. . .
About the statistic: another cause of intersexuality is environmental, during the fetus's stay in the womb. Hormone pollution from cows and some pesticides cause the fetus to develop inaccordingly to hir chromosomes. S/he then becomes intersexed at birth. This, of course, does not show up in genetic tests, and would probably account for some of the 80%.