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Title: Experience: I'm a man and a woman
Post by: Shana A on October 15, 2011, 09:04:46 AM
Experience: I'm a man and a woman

'The only person I told was a priest who offered to pray for me, but it wasn't prayers I needed'

    Pedro Juan Perez
    guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 October 2011 17.59 EDT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/14/i-am-a-man-and-a-woman-experience (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/14/i-am-a-man-and-a-woman-experience)

Ihad always been a sickly child, suffering more than my fair share of childhood ailments: asthma, chest infections and flu. Other kids called me a "weaky" because I was skinny and hopeless at sport. I hated rough-and-tumble boys' games and preferred knitting, but I had no idea my feminine leanings were down to genetics.

Then, when I was 13, I collapsed while riding my bike. My immune system was run down and I underwent a series of tests. They diagnosed Klinefelter's syndrome, which means I have three sex chromosomes, XXY, instead of the normal XY for a male, or XX for a female. The condition affects up to one in 1,000 boys – physically I'm male, but genetically I'm male and female.
Title: Re: Experience: I'm a man and a woman
Post by: LilDevilOfPrada on October 15, 2011, 04:09:33 PM
i am pretty sure that's me :) i absorbed my twin sister and tho i have a male body its general size and everything is more female i am curvei in fact the only reason i look male is from puberty which mom made happen ! my shoulders and other stuff never started until she had me have a T injection which kick started my testsies  :) but once i am able as in once i find a way to check i wanna find out if i have XXY :) and its funny how our bodies work because i grew boobs at the start of puberty then they vanished but my buds stayed :/ made for some painful moments :) but i do enjoy a good life story thanks :)