Gosh, I hope that a much later response doesn't come off as winging right out of the blue, but I rather accidentally came to your journal via the chain [of comments and friendlists, redacted out of common sense]. At least that is how I recall it, having not yet had my morning coffee.
I have been mulling over the intersection between intersex and trans for a while; I'm 46-xx CAH, reared as male (which REALLY sucked), had corrective surgery in the late 70s, more or less put the whole adolescent train-wreck behind me until a younger sibling (46-XY and a parent of three) came out as trans. Which has been, in a word, interesting.
Not sure where I am going with this other than "hello" and "best wishes". I note that the medical and biochemical literature on i/s conditions can be quite enlightening, and I further note that the transfolk do certainly at times debate their connection/intersection/distinction vis-a-vis intersex folk.
Friended you, anyway; see where it goes. Not many i/s folk 'out there' in LJ-land.
Angharad Lewis a pen-name, of course, but a believable one, even fits my sociolect.
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I have been mulling over the intersection between intersex and trans for a while; I'm 46-xx CAH, reared as male (which REALLY sucked), had corrective surgery in the late 70s, more or less put the whole adolescent train-wreck behind me until a younger sibling (46-XY and a parent of three) came out as trans. Which has been, in a word, interesting.
Not sure where I am going with this other than "hello" and "best wishes". I note that the medical and biochemical literature on i/s conditions can be quite enlightening, and I further note that the transfolk do certainly at times debate their connection/intersection/distinction vis-a-vis intersex folk.
Friended you, anyway; see where it goes. Not many i/s folk 'out there' in LJ-land.
Angharad Lewis
a pen-name, of course, but a believable one, even fits my sociolect.