Do you ever feel .....

[Peter]

I am glad that you feel that you are able to vent your feelings here. I think that the psychological aspects of being intersex are often ignored, because if people have a difficult enough time understanding what it physically means to be intersex, imagine how much more lost they would be by the psychological aspects of intersex. Maybe, in the coming decades, the situation will improve. It's interesting that the most widely read sustained narrative penned by an intersex author, is that of Herculine Barbin, which dates back to the nineteenth century. How did we loose our voice in the twentieth century? Are all the real stories of intersex lives locked away in the archives of doctors and psychiatrists? How can we survive the catastrophe of the medicalization of both our bodies and our minds?

Peter