Have you heard this statistic?

[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?