Intersex children find increasing medical, social support
By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:50am
http://www.standard.net/topics/features/2011/05/13/intersex-children-find-increasing-medical-social-supportSAN FRANCISCO -- Jeanne Nollman was a later bloomer.
She waited and waited for puberty to hit, and when she was 17 and still nothing had happened, she got tested -- and found out she had a rare condition called Swyer syndrome and would need supplemental hormones.
What no one told her until eight years later, when she demanded more information about her condition, was that she had the male X-Y chromosome pattern.
