help with book

[prince....ss?]

Look I don’t want to be mean but just look at his outline. He talks about CAH and AIS but does not address the other intersex conditions that don’t have the catchy initials. Secondly his out line make it out that these folks with CAH or AIS have a gender identity issue. If I’m correct most people with those conditions don’t have an identity issue. Then he switches to animal sex to compare us to the things that give birth through our penises. So read his outline he does not have a clue and is just looking for a freak show.

[peaceandparty]

listen,how many doctors are on intersex sites

i havent seen many

if doctors really want to know

then they would use the internet more

and start talking to the people who know more

-----us-----

prince.....ess i really like you......so dont get me wrong

but lets also try and trust ,jos!

and i hope jos that your cry was ok.......it must be awful sometimes!

i know i have cried a few atlantic oceans in my lifetime over my "abnormality"
-which actually turns out being a very "normal" occurence

intersex is damn normal........but not dealt with properly

[JOS]

Thanks Prince..ss I can appreciate what you're saying and I will take that into consideration. Afterall it's not just me that would be affected! and you do make a really good point as to why he's concentrating on certain syndromes.

And thank you too PeaceandParty, yes I did have a good cry... I'm a bit emotional this week, I think because I went for another oncology appointment. it's always quite stressful anticipating the worst but this time I had loads of questions that the consultant couldn't actually answer... so now I have to wait for a referal and then syke myself up to ask all over again with another random stranger (who googled my syndrome that morning)!!

sorry for the windging there... I know I haven't got it anywhere near as bad as some, so sorry

[gncallahan]

I haven't tried to focus on just a few sorts of differences. In the book, I have tried too suggest that because of the complexity of fetal development, all of us are different and the more we know about how people think about those differences the closer we will be to understanding one another. Also, I have tried to consider every aspect of sexual development and all of the disorders that might arise when the biology of development changes.

All I am seeking is some advice about how to go beyond what the textbooks have to say and show what real people think about how this affects their lives.

And my chapters about animals are simply intended to help people see how narrow our ideas are about human sexulaity in particular and mammalian sexuality in general.

I would still apreciate any of your insights about how I might do a better job of this.

Gerry Callahan