This has to be more difficult that being a homosexual, at least I think it is. I knew a Intersexed person in college, and he sufferd from deep depression.

Im a little confused–how do you not know you have a womb? Is it completely internal? If you have visible, functional male genetalia and have been raised a male your whole life and are happy with a male idenity, then I don't think this has to be life-alteringly traumatic. I believe gender experssion is a personal thing–how I act as a man is not neccesarily how you do–so there's no "wrong" way to be a man.

Faught?

@Grammar Police: oh my. i think Queerty has completely given up. well, at least people with GEDs are still getting jobs.

@dizzyspins: Um, YES, wombs are internal. Unless you have a prolapse or something.

He's definitely let the intersex discovery get to him. He is no longer recognizable compared to the younger him. Now he looks androgynous.

"If you have visible, functional male genetalia and have been raised a male your whole life and are happy with a male idenity, then I don't think this has to be life-alteringly traumatic."

dizzyspins,

It's because society essentializes gender as in the male=penis and woman=vagina myth.

hi all, and I am not XXY, The editors cut up my 3 days of filming and edited out the usefull information that would of explained in detail what my teen years were like and my medical history.

At no time Was I happy as a boy. Get that straight right now. What makes me so different is my medical experiences. I had doctors throughout my life questioning me, whether or not I was happy as a boy. at 13 I was told I was a girl, then kicked out of the exam room so the doctor could talk to my mother. ie Gender confusion throughout my teen years and early adult.

My military service, MOS, is Infantryman. 11Bravo. I volunteered for service during the Gulf War, and was attached temporary duty with the 1461st transportation company.

I also want to point out, that i knew before deploying and the military doctors knew before i deployed that iwas different, the DNA record testing prior to deployment, they said my blood says i am female. They did not do any more testing or explane how. Their only issue wast again, Am I a Gay Male? Which is or was a no at the time. I was dating women, and that was good enough for them.

After i came back the Chest xray showed only 1 adrenal gland present. the xray was performed due to deployment in Kuwait where i worked behind supporting the EOD teams, ie I was manual labor basically removing the left over munitions throughout Kuwait, ie after the EOD teams said it was safe. I have great pictures but they producer suggested using film clips instead of my own.

To make it clearer, The National Geographic Channels editing, has caused alot of missinformation to be put out, I am XY/XO that is called Mosaicism, it is also stated as 45XO/46XY and I also have CAH, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. <–in 1993 the military medical doctors called that Adrenal Genital Syndrome.<–that is my other diagnosis and it is the first one I was aware of, the CAH dx is what lead to my karyotype and I will make it clear, it took a total of 7 weeks to go through all the testing just to find out what i am, and since 93, coming back to the states doctors have chosen to ignore what the military identified. Later more surgery, just to look more like a guy.

Androgenous? i am a true-hermaphrodite guess what, i am supposed to look that way. Now that does not make me happy by the way, cause it really does suck.

if it helps any what they said, how they described my internal anatomy:

2 bilateral ovaries, left 2.7cm by 1.4cm, right 2.5cm by 1.3cm. undifferentiated mullerian ducts, and a juvenile uterus.

a week later, after spending 3 hours talking to a military psychiatrist, he ordered my first set of lab work, I then waited for the results, 2 weeks later, Adrenal Genital Syndrome ie CAH was the first diagnosis and after they explained using a medical encyclopedia what that was, they ordered more lab work ie Karyotype both blood and bucceal.

results. XY/XO

Gender = Female/Male

Intersex true-hermaphrodite.

that is my diagnosis and the TNGC editing did not explain any of that information.

I have two testes and two ovaries and I did provide them with MRI scans from 2004, that show's penile reconstruction which I was made aware of in 1993. Yet local doctors radiologist ignore that information and state what i have is acceptable for a penis.

They describe the previously identified juvenile uterus now, after surgery in 2002, as a heterogenous structure reminiscent of a prostate. <–it looks that way, due to surgical reconstruction. they also identify several vascular bundles on the right side, that have been severed from what they use to attach too. Basically what i have now internally is 1/3 of the size of what i used to have. I describe what doctors have done in 2002 as an equivalent to a partial hysterectomy and tubal ligation and resection. I still have my ovaries they just sit higher then before and they still work.

all of this information I had mentioned and the editing for the documentary withheld this information.

Gender identity and acceptance is nothing really, when others chose to hide what doctors really do to intersex people.

It is my adult surgeries that have proven to me the most that doctors make critical life altering decisions based on their personal beliefs and could care less what they do to the people that are their victims.

i hope people can learn from real experiences of an intersex born person who has some crappy experiences by doctors and family.

take care and please try to understand or comprehend that if this was you, how would you feel about what you are?