before and now....opinion poll

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Dr Rick's comment
While I was surfing the internet, I found Dr. Rick's statement which made me soooo upset by saying "ambiguous genitalia are "a serious disease", without hesitation, and "management of ambiguous genitala in the newborn"...and he like to performe "the potential and limits of reconstructive surgery"?
However, I believe the corrective surgeries more likely caused various mental illnesses.

( Definition)
disease
a condition of a person, animal, or plant in which its body or structure is harmed because an organ or part is unable to work as it usually does; an illness.


By Dr. Rick:
"Ambiguous genitilia are a manifestation of a serious disease, not an oppurtunity to delay life-altering distinctions and treatment. The disease sometimes occurs in conjunction with serious and potentially life-threatening anatomic anomalies of the digestive and/or urogenital tract that can't wait until puberty to be corrected. Gender assignment cannot be practically put-off for a dozen or so years without profound and harmful implications for the patient and his/her family under most circumstances. Human beings are she's and he's, not it's.

Karyotyping (chromosomal analysis), the anatomic condition of the baby, biochemical and imaging studies, and the etiology of the genital malformations can lead to a precise and unambiguous diagnosis. Management of ambiguous genitalia in the newborn, when done properly, utilizes an entire multidisciplinary team along with the family in every step of the diagnostic procedures, the choice of sex assignment, and the treatment strategy; a delay in gender assignment and definitive treatment is now rarely warranted.

As a general rule, female pseudohermaphrodites (genotypic females) are usually declared to be female sex at birth. In cases of male pseudohermaphroditism (genotypic males), the decision can sometimes be more complex. In all cases, the potential and limits of reconstructive surgery and the pubertal "programmed" response of the genitalia to endogenous and exogenous hormones must be considered.

What's not entirely clear from the other posts on this thread is how assigning gender to a child with a birth-defect should be any more of a moral dilemma than assigning gender to a healthy baby, or how a delayed repair of deformed genitalia is somehow more ethically appropriate than a delayed repair of a cleft palate, an undescended testicle, or an imperforate vagina."
http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.p...2&page=2&pp=25

this is what a member said
i just came across it alli-gah-to!

i would like us to discuss how we feel about this article!

personally i know i am out of my league until someoen can explain the scientific terminology

one of the curses given to me in life was that i was given a genetic"abnormality"
again---another bad use of words from scarey doctors!
because i always hated science and had no interest
but i am interested in correct usage or creative usage of words
so i would love it if we could discuss this old post
and try and find out what type of language we would like used in conjunction with explaining our own going intersexed conditions and lifestyles

hope this makes sense
its sunday...i am a bit brain dead!!lol