Standing In Balance
Posted by catkisser on September 25, 2009
http://cathrynp.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/standing-in-balance/This is the interview I gave Raven Kaldera for the second edition of Hermaphrodities Raven's works are utterly fascinating and well worth a read. Crossposted at Riding the Second Wave
1) Tell us about your gender identity.
My gender identity is woman/female. Sounds simple doesn't it? It is far from so. I've been told by both intersexed people and trans people I don't exist, that the conditions of my birth are impossible or at least impossibly rare enough I could not possibly be who I am.....and yet I am. Up to now I have mostly kept these things private to myself and those who came to study with me for this reason. I was born a tetragametic chimera which means in simpler terms, born during the sign of Gemini, I am, literally, twins in a single person with two different sets of genetics in one body, in my case fraternal twins, one male, one female that combined around the second or third cellular split. At my birth I embodied Agdistis. I was born at a "cottage" hospital in 1949 and presented with both an apparent penis and labia, the doctor sewed up my labia and declared me male. From the time I was first able to grasp the concept of male and female, I knew I was female and the circumstances of my birth having been kept from me, when I ran across the concept of "transsexual", I thus assumed that was what I was and "transitioned" as an adult within that context. It was only after I first transitioned that I learned of my own nature although I had suspected so my entire life. Today my body reflects the Divine Feminine.
