Between The Sexes (Intersex Children)

Time Magazine ^ | 02.27.04 | Christine Gorman and Wendy Cole

[Pyro7480]

I say this is using biologically-unique individuals for the trans-sexual agenda. Sickening...

[TedsGarage]

Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Middlesex" dealt with this issue. It was about Calliope Stephanides, who appeared to be a girl, but at puberty, started developing masculine features. Eventually, she decided to live as a man. (This doesn't ruin the book. It's all at the start. What's interesting is why it happened and how he/she discovered it.) It's an excellent read.

[writer33]

Holy Intersexual experiences! This is confusing and sickening.

[Sloth]

Although her sex chromosomes are unambiguously XY, there is no doubt that she is a woman.

I doubt it. She is a disfigured man.

[KantianBurke]

At the age of 4, she started asking, "Mommy, am I a boy or a girl?"

This line is so sad. Poor kid :<

[ahayes]

It's not quite that simple. I read a medical journal recently about a XY mosaic woman who gave birth to a healthy baby.

[js1138]

Have trouble reading? Your quote refers to an entirely different person that the one featured in the article.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

May God bless that unfortunate child and all who care for her.

[Sloth]

Did you read the entire article?

[aruanan]

I say this is using biologically-unique individuals for the trans-sexual agenda. Sickening...

No, anyone who takes graduate level biochemistry or medical courses is quite familiar with this phenomenon.

[Paul C. Jesup]

About 30 genetic and hormonal conditions can give rise to intersexuality, leading, in some folks, to an obvious mixture of male and female sex traits.

Ping, this is some of what I was trying to tell you in my posts to you.

[anniegetyourgun]

What it all boils down to, says Dr. Eric Vilain, a professor of human genetics, pediatrics and urology at UCLA, is that the roots of gender identity are much more complex than anyone thought.

No it's not. These are examples of birth defects. Are we to believe that "human identity is much more complex than anyone thought" because some are born without a limb, with spina bifida, or dwarfism? Of course not.

It's wrong and insulting to use exceptions to push a political agenda.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Interesting, that is really rare. What medical journal did you read that out of?

[Huck]

:-(

[Paul C. Jesup]

(sarcasm) Do you also believe the feminist dogma that there is no difference between the brains of men and women.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I was once vaguely acquainted with a 40+ year old college student who was born a hermaphrodite. Her father wanted a son and insisted she be raised as a boy. Her mother didn't dare raise any objections to the domineering dad's decrees, but the then-child definitely felt like a girl and wanted to be one. Dad forced medical treatments aimed at making him/her a him, which made the final result she achieved as a her much less normal looking than would originally have been possible. In high school, she left home every day dressed as a boy since dad insisted, and a sympathetic school counselor met her a couple of blocks away in a car, where the boy/girl changed clothes in order to arrive at school as a girl. It took her a long long time to get her head together, but in early forties she was finally in college and amazingly well-adjusted. All things considered, I found it rather miraculous that she didn't grow up to be serial killer.

[anniegetyourgun]

(No sarcasm) Having read brain and NLP studies, I know better.

[js1138]

I find your use of the term "disfigured" to be offensive and medically innaccurate. Genderis usually determined by chrosomes, but it can be altered in the fetus by hormones, and sometimes by other chemicals. People affected by this are not disfigured.

[krb]

Sounds like a really, really smart and alert child.