He Fought the Gulf War Thinking He Was a Guy. Then He Found Out About the Ovaries

http://www.queerty.com/he-faught-the-gulf-war-thinking-he-was-a-guy-then-he-found-out-about-the-ovaries-20090916/

Well isn't this poignant: Confusion about what it means to be intersexed isn't limited to South African athletes. Meet Rudy Alaniz, a Gulf War veteran who learned through a wartime MRI that he had ovaries — and a small womb.

Interviewed for a National Geographic Channel piece airing Saturday (complete with both Brokeback and scary music!), Rudy says of the revelation: "I'm not a boy, and I'm not a girl, I'm not a man, I'm not a woman. That made me feel dead inside. ... That made me feel like a freak of nature."

Well, he's not a freak of nature, but he's certainly let himself go. Regardless of how confusing such a discovery might be, why do so many people take it to be devastating?

Quote from: Sebastien on September 16, 2009, 01:17:14 PM
Well, he's not a freak of nature, but he's certainly let himself go. Regardless of how confusing such a discovery might be, why do so many people take it to be devastating?

Yeah I've never got that either, I get that its a shock but devastating?