An Encouraging Support for People with Congenital Gender Variations All points of view, if presented in a civil manner, are welcome.
On this date of July 9th, 2007, GendersInX (GIX) opened it's doors and since then we have had many come in and take a gander on the goings on. GIX had gone through some graphical changes and recently some minor structural changes to always compensate for the growing number of people coming in.
In GIX we tend to put things into a positive light and the members there do actually care about everyone. I know I am biased, but it's the place to be to put a positive spin on issues that are dear to people, All there all have a chromosome condition and they freely discuss their challenges so that you all can see that you definitely are not alone in your difficulties.
We will be publishing another GIX NewsLetter hopefully every three moths or less if more articles come in. If you would like to submit something that interested you and would like to share, please contact me and I will see that the article will be viewed.
Andre Founder of GendersInX Andre@GendersInX.org
From the OII Website:
In November of 2007, GendersInX, a grassroots intersex support group founded by Andre Lorek, unveiled this Ribbon and has given it to the Intersex communities worldwide. The Ribbon stands for the people we are no matter what gender we feel most appropriate individually. In a world where gender is being perversely attributed to doctrines that describe us as “sexually disordered” and in which the medical communities would rather normalise us, we have a symbol of unity and of combined strength to fight against those who would invisibilise us and pathologise our gender.
Wearing this ribbon shows the world that we are here to stay and that much is to be done for the world to recognise us as important Intersexed individuals. GendersInX believes that people are more than a condition. We are individuals with thoughts and feelings of our own and GendersInX is an organisation which helps to establish a certain pride in ourselves while helping others in the same situation.
July 9th, 2008 marks the date that GendersInX celebrates its 1st complete year. It is with all this in mind that GIX unveils a line of apparel with this printed ribbon as shown below.
The apparels can be purchased from the online store www.cafepress.com/cgvribbon which can be reached from any computer on earth. The list of apparel ranges from caps in various colors, T-Shirts, Polos, jogging apparel to cups, badges, magnets and more.
All proceeds of this line of apparel will go to the GendersInX organisation and the monies made from this will help to support the Intersex movement world wide.
On November the 8th, 2008, let’s celebrate Intersex Solidarity Day together by showing this Ribbon as a sign of solidarity and mutual support regardless of our differences.
The Organisation Intersex International is honoured that André Lorek is a coalition member of OII and we encourage others to support GendersInX by shopping online and showing your support of GENDER VARIATIONS.
Curtis E. Hinkle, Founder, Organisation Intersex International
Klinefelter's? Are you or did he assess us right? What about the symptoms?
In the end, those of us who have the XXY are up against the tired old definitions that pertained to a very small group of similarly affected males. KS - Klinefelter's Syndrome. As a result we are lumped with them or if we don't quite fit than we have a lot of trouble ahead since Doctors tend to look for congruence rather than a range of possibilities.
For most of my life, KS was never broached by my doctors because I was obviously bright, fairly strong, and quite unwilling to discuss my psychological state with them out of fear of where they'd go with it.
Today, I/we still find it difficult to get Doctors to pay attention to the possible effects of our XXY condition. It's oftenhard to get them to look at our genitals let alone order tests for hormone levels or other endocrine functions because "you don't fit the profile".
The real problem with intersex in general and XXY in particular is that none of these conditions are symptomatically straightforward. Each has condition has a broad range of possible symptoms that may or may not affect a given individual at a given time. While we probably would have benefited from Testosterone Therapy in our early years -the state of that therapy in the 40's and 50's might have been worse than the soft teeth and immune deficiencies we experienced.
Another aspect that tends to be overemphasized is the rabid binarism of parents of KS children. It would seem that the latest studies connecting a greater "femininity" in XXY persons with an X from the mother's side might provide a softening stance toward KS and XXY children who act more feminine. But what we find on many KS sites is an almost feverish denial of female tainted behavior. We've got to get away from this idea that "feminine" behavior in men necessarily means a homosexual outcome. Orientation is not necessarily tied to behavior.
So let's encourage parents, and doctors toward a wait and see attitude while maintaining a close watch on the various shortcomings that may develop concerning hormones, and the general physical well being of our young friends with XXY.
Tom/Ms.G Member of GendersInX.org
My Bichon Frisé has a DSD (Disorder of Sex Development) by Curtis E. Hinkle
I am the proud adult companion of a cute little Bichon Frisé named Sensen. When Sensen was just a few weeks old, I was told that s/he was a boy. To my astonishment no one could tell Sensen from a girl. He was a big white puff ball with coal black eyes and a very feisty, endearing temperament. I began wondering if perhaps there were some sex development issues that needed to be dealt with and took him to the veterinarian. To my dismay, he was diagnosed as being afflicted with a DSD and more specifically cryptochordism. He had no balls. He was defective, not worth much really. Should have been eliminated from the gene pool before birth. But to me he was very special.
Well, I was confused. Was s/he really a boy? Or a girl? Or what? What sex should I raise Sensen as. What was the most likely gender identity that s/he would grow up to be or would s/he be a boy if I simply treated him like a boy? These questions haunted me for weeks. I did not want to have a little companion with gender issues and this disorder needed to be fixed so that I was sure what color leash to get and whether to put bows in his/her hair
. The veterinarian informed me that depending on the underlying cause of the cryptochordism, the gender could vary. It could be that s/he was afflicted with the disorder of sex development known as androgen insensitivity syndrome and have a female identity. However, it could be that what we were dealing with was another disorder that would actually make Sensen act like a boy even though s/he really wasn't.
Now this confused the hell out of me. How could my little companion act like something s/he wasn't? Should I make him/her act like what s/he really is? The vet informed me that in such cases s/he could mount other females but for me not to worry about it because s/he would not be able to reproduce and the other females probably would not care. But that did not answer my question. If s/he is acting like a male but is really a female, how do I know which is the real Sensen?
The veterinarian realized that such questions were of great concern to me as the adult companion of Sensen and decided to run a battery of tests to determine the true sex. It never dawned on us to deal with the possibility that maybe Sensen was intersex and might not really agree with any male or female category. We just assumed that all animals are male or female and by running tests we will know which one they really are and therefore ease any discomfort that might be associated with uncertainty or ambiguity.
Well, to my amazement before I got the tests back Sensen was mounting Chocolat my beautiful little Chocolate Persian companion and I was totally stunned. I thought that it was just his sex that had not developed. Now I was faced with a real deviant who was attracted to cats. I quickly called the vet and told him to stop all tests. I did not want any more information. Sensen had answered all my questions. He was just a deviant, pure and simple. But he is adorable and I love him rotten.
--Curtis E. Hinkle Fondateur, Organisation Internationale des Intersexes Founder, Organisation Intersex International http://www.intersexualite.org/
Hello all.
My name is Larry and I am a member of the peer support team here at GIX, and I am also part of the community of GIX. I am KS 47,XXY & Multi - Medical. That just means I have a little more to deal with then the majority of XXY's. There is only one other like me that I know of and yes he is also part of the community here at GIX and he drops by every now and I do keep in touch with him outside of here as I do with most personal friends from here.
Sometimes I am a pretty quiet guy and sometimes I am not, these days I am trying to find a equal medium for me because weather I always want to admit it I like and need this community because of the support that is here for people like me who has a X syndrome. A year ago I was on another support site that dam near drove me crazy. You see it was my first experience in dealing with another XXY, or should I say a hornets nest full of XXY's. All I can say is it was a little more stressful then I had expected. The person that found the site for me was telling me to get out of there because they felt it was going to destroy me. I walked away when I was ready and I must say the site took it's toll on me and just made me more of a angry person. When I first came to GIX I came with a chip on my shoulder and that was a big no, no and I always have to find out things the hard way and I found out all right. Here I came to these support sites to get support and I was just getting myself into trouble.
I did change and finely became a part of the community. The most important thing I learned was to talk about issues and quit holding it inside to boil until I did explode. I had to learn to trust the members of the community because there was nothing they could do to help if they never knew there was a problem to begin with. One thing you will notice right off the bat is all the support people in our community, and there is always a moderator around and they are there to make sure no conversations get out of hand and someone ends up hurting someone Else's feelings. That don't happen here.
Well if you joined the community don't be afraid to say something, support only works if you are willing to participate
Larry@gendersInX.org Peer Support
Hello
My name is Canice although most would probably know me better as Xnister. I have been actively involved in the online XXY forums since my diagnoses of that condition in 2000, aged 37 my treatment thereafter consisted of a very brief period on testosterone (12 - 14 months) followed by my present treatment of estrogen which, I have been using now for well over three years. As a result of changing treatment from what the mainstream organizations promote, my interests moved slowly away from them, to concentrate more on alternatives to testosterone. I am presently in the process of 'putting something together' to better inform xxy's who choose alternative paths, namely estrogen.
My stance on XXY is that we are a variation of both genders with the only difference being how we acknowledge this anomaly, some of us prefer to use testosterone saying, it better represents what they are (male identifying XXY's) while others(myself included) use estrogen and identify as something other than male.
I'm drawn to GendersInX because it promotes awareness to all aspects of XXY while at the same time, allowing me to learn of other closely related anomalies, its a beautiful melting pot with an aroma to match.
Canice x Xnister@GendersInX.org Moderator
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