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Congenital Neurological Intersex Condition
That “T” word !!
There are some forums where this issue would raise a heated debate.
I don’t expect that here…..but still….?
I have spent the last few years studying, to the best of my non-medical ability, the causes of Transgender/Intersex issues. Around two years ago I Googled “Transsexualism + Intersex”
and I got like two hits linking the two. Now there’s pages of hits. It seems that modern Doctors and medical groups now all accept that what was refered to as “Transsexualism” is actually the Intersex condition
called “Congenitical Neurological Intersex Condition”.
There are about 21 conditions of sex and gender medical variations that are called ‘Intersex’.
It was only eleven years ago that the terrible natal condition called “Hyperemesis” was still thought to be “just in the mind” as it was over 100 years ago !!
My son’s pregnancy caused this condition and my ex couldnt eat or even swallow water and was eventually told by Brisbane nurses to “go home and suck ginger ’cause it’s all in your mind” !!
One of Elizabeth Bronte’s sisters died of this condition. Thinking it was a mental condition she was locked in a room and left to die!
But now it’s fully accepted by all as a bona-fide medical condition and patients are given the Oncology chemo therapy anti-nausient drug called ‘Ondansatron’ for which we were (afaik) the first in OZ to test it for natal use in hyperemesis!
So it was in the 1960’s when Harry Benjamine coined the term “Transsexual” ….. a “mental disorder” !
I have come to hate this term and I now find it greatly offensive !! Firstly it is NOT a medical term but a slang term which has come to have a stigma attached albeit through lack of edcucation.
Go out in the street and ask anyone what a “trannie” is and I’ll bet they reply something like a ‘drag-queen’ ! 😯
It’s interesting to note that even the Government has dropped the
‘Trannie” word from their new passport rules prefering “gender and sex variant”.
So I now consider myself to have been born with two Intersex conditions…..’CNIC’ being one of them.
I would like to politely encourage those of us who still use the “T’ word to take the time to learn the rather long and clumbsy medical term because we all need to educate the public
and I can’t see the Federal Government running a national educational TV Ad-campaign anywhere in the near future! If we won’t support our own cause then who will …. I do NOT have a “Mental Disorder”!!
I’m Monique and I have “Congenital Neurological Intersex Contition”.
Love and Hugs to all -
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Monique, you’re absolutely right. Labels are a hinderence anyway and usually not right. If someone told me I have a mental disorder (as my ex wife determined) I would tell them I have a document from a reputable psychiatrist that states I don’t have a mental disorder. It’s all part of the continuing struggle in educating the public about us, and not allowing them to put us down. We’re just being ourselves.
Liz
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a very good friend of mine from Ballarat was taken to a psychiatrist by his mother when he started dressing in his sisters clothes at age 12 she was told although it might be a little unusual thear was nothing wrong with him he still dresses to-day at 56yrs and looks georgious bless her cotton sox Cathy
