Sunday, July 26, 2009

Intersexed

This quote takes some explanation.
I have a friend who, in his mid-forties, found himself going through various physical changes including losing weight, skin texture and thickness changing, and getting blood test results that had the doctor muttering "The lab ought to be embarrassed to send reports that are so obviously impossible." In short, he changed from male to female in the space of three months, apparently due to a combination of genetics (for the potential) and a change in cholesterol medication (for the trigger). She just found, some years later, that her condition has a name--protandrous pseudohermaphroditism--and she added:

"You know that your life is going to be interesting, complicated and not without difficulty when you hide amongst transsexual people so as not to appear to be too unusual."

1 comment:

Lux Mentis said...

Something like this is odd enough to be unusual and comment-worthy from a medical and human standpoint.

On the other hand, the fact that folks are persecuted by idiots for things beyond their control is a rather sad testament to humanity.