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Hi....

I'm Kelsie - better late than never. I was born physically ambiguous because I had a protuberance that could have been only a MILLIMETER bigger than the line where doctors decide to assign an ambiguous child as a boy, I had surgery to make me look more like a normal boy - called normalization surgery. Not one, but many apparently over the course of my first 3 yrs. And then when I failed to thrive after reaching adolescence because I didn't have anywhere near enough testosterone, I was given HGH and testosterone shots to force me to grow and into male puberty - I wasn't told why, but I'm assuming it was since I was already raised as a boy I'd better be made to look like one. 

I stopped taking the testosterone shots for years and developed brittle bones which easily broke, and a weird seemingly auto-immune thyroid problem. Only then, after breaking a bone and suffering inexplicable weight gain, did I find out I was actually given it to make me look as masculine as I could. After agreeing to take part in a medical study, I found out that my karotype - my actual genes, were not male, but not entirely female either. I was born a mosaic with ambiguous genitalia. 

After getting on estrogen preliminarily because I had to treat the physical health problems and I refused more testosterone, which is in itself not the 'normal' therapy for someone like me, I decided to be the person I was born to be and am on a full therapeutic dose and working towards re-assigment.

So......hello :) I hate introductions, LOL!!

XO
Kelsie

A big warm welcome to the family Kelsie! That's right, FAMILY. You will love it here. There is so much support, knowledge, respect and caring you will find yourself spending a LOT of time with us. I look forward to getting to know you better. Please PM me if you ever need any private girl talk or have questions. I will let you vent, cry, share and do the best I can to help you out. Again, Welcome! BIG HUG!!  :)

Hi Jessica!!! Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOO much! It's not easy trying to be the girl I was denied to be when I was still young :D

XO
Kelsie

Hey, Kelsie!  :D

Welcome to the family, sister. You're going to like it here, everyone is so very great. Seems like you've had a very hard time of it, I'm sorry.  :( I'm glad you're on the way to being on the outside just who you've always been on the inside. We're here for you; support, love, whatever you need. ::hugs::

I know introductions can be hard to write (I hate writing them, too), but I'm glad you did.

-maggie

Hi Kelsie, welcome to Susan's Place! Looking good with that Donators badge! Thank you for supporting the site. See you around, hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Magdalena on October 29, 2013, 07:46:04 PM
Hey, Kelsie!  :D

Welcome to the family, sister. You're going to like it here, everyone is so very great. Seems like you've had a very hard time of it, I'm sorry.  :( I'm glad you're on the way to being on the outside just who you've always been on the inside. We're here for you; support, love, whatever you need. ::hugs::

I know introductions can be hard to write (I hate writing them, too), but I'm glad you did.

-maggie

I hate introductions at the best of times, but here it's like....uh, what to say.....I should say something about what brought me here, lol!!!

Thanx Maggie!!!!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on October 29, 2013, 07:46:57 PM
Hi Kelsie, welcome to Susan's Place! Looking good with that Donators badge! Thank you for supporting the site. See you around, hugs, Devlyn

Thanks Devlyn, and thanx for all you guys do here.

It won't be the last donation I'm sure :)

hi

Hi, Alden!

Come on in, make yourself at home. We're happy to have you here. I know it's tough to make that introductory post, but I know you can do it! You're already accepted, into post or no.  :D

your new sister,
-maggie

Hello there Kelsie.  Pleased to meet you.

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• Age and the Forum (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,62197.msg405545.html#msg405545)
  
• Reputation rules (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,18960.0.html)
  
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Hi Kelsie, :icon_wave:

Welcome to our little family. Over 8225 members. That would be one heck of a family reunion.

Feel free to post your successes/failures, Hopes/dreams.  Ask questions and seek answers. Give and receive advice.

But remember we are family here, your family now. And it is always nice to have another sister. (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsmileys.on-my-web.com%2Frepository%2FAnimals%2Fferret-3.gif&hash=f49e2f86761323f2abd9c33941920389dbb3b10f)

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Janet  )O(

Thanks Everyone :)