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Originally Posted by PenguinTrax
Transsexual is a person desiring to change their gender assignment. Intersex means that there is genetic or physical evidence of more than one gender.
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Now that you say that, I remember a L&O:SVU episode about that. How the parents chose to make their baby a girl and get rid of the extra, um, appendage - and apparently they chose wrong...
/hijack
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
That could have something to do with the therapist making her act out sex with her twin brother...
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
That used to be the standard for a botched circumcision or for any sort of uncertainty about the babies physical sex. At the time, doctors thought it was all about how we were raised. Yeah, that didn't work out so well.
ETA: Oh and a Kinsey 0 here. File me under ally  |
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Originally Posted by 33girl
I would assume it is one who flies around fruits (i.e. homosexuals) with frequency.
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This thread is interesting. As for the intersex issue, my husband is a pediatric endocrinology fellow at Johns Hopkins where he works with Dr. Claude Migeon, an expert in "ambiguous genitalia." My husband was quite shocked to become "that kind of doctor" but says that the diseases that cause ambiguous genitalia are fascinating. The experts still recommend that most of these patients be assigned the female gender, and despite all of the popular media displaying story after story of bad outcomes, the truth is that the VAST majority of these people go on to live fulfilled, happy lives as women whether or not they are genetically male. There is a
slightly higher rate of homosexuality and transgender issues in these assigned females than in the general population, but these cases are heard from more than the 98% who are fine. In the end, reconstructing male genitalia is nearly impossible with very poor surgical outcomes. That is why they assign female gender most frequently. This is a very, very complicated medical condition, but the medical community does its best to give these patients a normal life.
As for "fruit flies," I'm a proud "fruit fly" since I'm close friends with three gay men who I consider family.
As for the Kinsey scale, I'm a Kinsey 0. Sorry, ladies, you don't do it for me at all!