Hi All,
I am going to jump in here, although I am new to this site. I am by far not knew to all of this. Transitioned 15 yrs ago and consider myself a intersexed trans person. Bottom line we all transition if we alter whatever was assigned at birth for whatever reason, doctors ignorance, or well if you think about it, doctors ignorance. I am a believer that no one should be assigned a sex until the age of 5 if we have to do it. Because until about the age of language development,, there is no way to tell what we are, because
we can't tell anyone what we are.
Here is where the question comes in can we take a test of some sort to find out
I would like to know of some tests that maybe could verify this? Can you help? Scientist have been trying to seperate the sexes for hundreds of years, and sense the 1700's no one method has been found to work
consistently There are just too many variables.
The other thing is to get your answer through a scientific test, you have to believe that sex is something that we can isolate and define by specific factors that have failed so many people so many times. Sex is determined where?
Mario, you can have a chromosome test done to see if you are xy, xx, xxy, etc. but all that is going to really do is tell you what your chromosomes are, but is it really going to tell you what "sex" you are? I know plenty of people that consider themselves "Male" with female chromosomes, and I know others that have such a string of chromosomes that it is impossible to know what their sex is.
Having a uterus, does not make a woman. I had a uterus and a testicle, does that make me a woman or a man? There are traditionally defined women that cannot have babies does that make them less of a woman? See what I mean? And in history it is documented "males" having babies on battle fields, and I do not mean what we consider women prosing as males back in history. I mean regular males that had external openings that had gone un detected. Today we surgical "Fix" / " Butcher , babies born with these openings and assign a sex to them.
For the past nine years I have traveled this country and done extensive research on this topic and I never sease to be amazed at how our own community just buys into what the "experts" want to tell us about who and what we are, as people collectively.
If a person really wants to know what their scientific make up is, that is one thing, but to find out what your sex is.... I personally say, ask yourself where you believe you fall on that spectrum!
I hope no one minds my butting in here and writing. I just wanted to share, and I have enjoyed reading through some threads today. This is truly a great site! The support here for eachother is just really cool to see.
By the way, personally I define and live my life as a male, a father, brother, and husband. But what I am is defined by me,, no longer the medical world. I wish we could all share in that freedom, there is progress, but much more needed.
Thanks for being here
Susans.org this is just great support offered that is seldom found!
Taylor
