Why does Canberra pump all the weird into the blogosphere?

Oh, and bonfire – it’s arguable on the medical evidence that I did crossdress for 47 years, uninterrupted. But I had an excuse: I looked male, so I wore male clothing.

When I started looking female, I switched to that. Well, I always was conventional, trying to fit in with society’s expectations. Trying to blend in, not to stand out too much. For one thing, it’s too dangerous.

Transgendered people who are obviously so have 17 times the rate of being murder victims than the average, in the US anyway.

Feel free to contact me, I’ll give you URLs. Then you can make up your own mind, you may or may not find the scientific evidence pursuasive. But the Full Bench of the Family Court in the Re Kevin decisions did.

Aging… that hurt. The truth always hurts.

Transgendered? By some definitions. My birth certificate says “boy”, Medicare Australia says I’m female, and not only that, but being treated for severe androgenisation of a non-pregnant woman.

Psych tests show I’m female, as much as that can be determined. A blood Karyotype showed I was normally 46xy, which surprised everybody given the somatic changes. Blood hormone levels are not consistent with me being human, according to one medic. But consistent with having 2 separate minor mutations, we think we know what caused my somatic sex to change.

I’m just doing the best that I can, under the circumstances I’m in. OK, my circumstances are unusual, embarressing, and complicated.

The facts : 1 in ~3500 people are born with congenital neurological intersex, “harry benjamin’s syndrome” as it’s called now. I had that, but no longer, now my body is female, or at least, more female than anything else.

About 1.7%, one in 60, people are mildly Intersexed in some way, about 1 in 1,000 really severely affected. But it’s all so embarressing to everybody that no-one talks about it. Think about it – you could have been born with “ambiguous genitalia”, or chromosomes that don’t match your body, or any of a number of other Intersex conditions.

Only a very few – those with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency for example – have their somatic sex change over their lifetime. But it happens to some.

This is not “normal”, though it happens in all mammalian species, so it’s not un-natural either.

OK, I’m a freak, medically speaking. But I’m not sub-human, and if treated like one, I’m going to object. I’m hideously embarressed – and embarressing – but I’m not ashamed.

OK, I’m an uber-Geek too. Part of being a Rocket Scientist, it goes with the territory.

Hey Teej, thanks for the tip. Wondered where you’d got to.

we are all gods children. so we should accept the way we are born. I have learnt to accept that I am not diane despite the fact that there is a very small chance in the future that i may become diane. i don’t even like the name diane.. I just choose to not be her. does this make deviant.

self reference does not make it so.

if i chose to identify as a steamshovel, i doubt that anyone apart from the shrinks humouring me would refer to me as a steamshovel.

I’m pretty sure blogs don’t have genders

I work in a clothes shop. The other day someone from one our other stores rang me up and asked if we had a “female shoe”. That one sure confused me.

“A small although significant part of society believes gender is related to how one feels about him- or herself, regardless of biological gender. Members of this group (approximately 2% of the population) classify themselves as transgendered.”
Source here
Sure it’s not a most credible source but at least shows I’m not pulling the numbers out of my head.
See also here.

are you sure youre not confusing this with hermaphroditism ?

I think you’ll find crossdressing is clearly deviant behaviour.

Are you saying that only .1% of the population is transgender?
Quoting only from memory so I could be incorrect but I believe it is more like 2%
and transgender behaviour has been documented across many cultures at many different historical moments

‘And who’s to say what’s ‘normal’?’

99.9% of mankind since recorded history began.