Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome

[Desire (imported)]

HI

My name is Desire and I would like to introduce myself.

Here is my story: 1 in 13,000 an XY genetic male fetus is unresponsive to male hormones and develops genitals that look like a girls, except for a lack of internal reproductive organs. These XY coplete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) infants are simply declared girls and are raised as girls,

athough, they cannot bear children they often develop into slender attractive women who have a female gender identity.

Desire

[Mac (imported)]

HI

My name is Desire and I would like to introduce myself.

Here is my story: 1 in 13,000 an XY genetic male fetus is unresponsive to male hormones and develops genitals that look like a girls, except for a lack of internal reproductive organs. These XY coplete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) infants are simply declared girls and are raised as girls,

athough, they cannot bear children they often develop into slender attractive women who have a female gender identity.

Desire

Do you have this? If so please tell us more about yourself.

Thanks

[sag111 (imported)]

Desire thanks for droping by and i know you will find many people here that are more then willing to help you and most of all we are friendly .I have made the best friends that i ever had in here and i feel that this is as importante as anything .

good luck my friend

[Desire (imported)]

HI

Sage111

I"m new here and I already like here a lot thanx for the warm welcome.

Desire

[transgirl23ny (imported)]

I have a friend who has AIS. There are many levels of it though. The one you described happens to be the most extreme case. In her case, she has AIS and partially developed. Doctors declared her intersexed, but had her raised as a male. Her identity was female, and she now is undergoing gender transition. Pretty interesting what the human body does... it just doesnt seem to like conforming to genders sometimes *wink* Maybe the world should learn a lesson from nature, and open up to diversity a bit more. LoL

Rawk on! Welcome!!!

[Kelly_2 (imported)]

Intersex conditions are common in people who transition. Although the formation of genitalia and that of gender identity occur at different times in utero, the reason why one might be different from the norm or average might be present at both times--that of a hormonal difference.

Being intersexed is thought to be far more common than that of being transsexual, but there is much overlap. A certain mixture and concentrations of hormones cause the genitalia to form as male or default as female or be in between. This occurs early in the womb. Gender identity seems to develop later, when the hypothalamus is formed, which occurs very late in pregnancy. Simply put, studies[1] indicate that regrdless of anything else (including genes, post-natal hormones, sexual orientation, upbringing, etc.), those with a male gender identity have a BSTc region that is about twice the size and contains about twice the number of neurons as those who have a female gender identity.

In my case, my genitalia unfortunately formed as male (I assume that I am XY), but possibly since my mother took a good bit of the synthetic female hormone DES (which has been known to cause "boys" to be born transsexual), my gender identity was female (I had SRS four years ago, thankfully).

Many of the women that I know who have transitioned were born intersexed, and that does not seem surprising in the least.

I wish all of you the very best in life.

Hugs,

Kelly

[1] The studies mentioned:

http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtc0106.htm

http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/85/5/2034

[transgirl23ny (imported)]

Intersex conditions are common in people who transition. Although the formation of genitalia and that of gender identity occur at different times in utero, the reason why one might be different from the norm or average might be present at both times--that of a hormonal difference.

Being intersexed is thought to be far more common than that of being transsexual, but there is much overlap. A certain mixture and concentrations of hormones cause the genitalia to form as male or default as female or be in between. This occurs early in the womb. Gender identity seems to develop later, when the hypothalamus is formed, which occurs very late in pregnancy. Simply put, studies[1] indicate that regrdless of anything else (including genes, post-natal hormones, sexual orientation, upbringing, etc.), those with a male gender identity have a BSTc region that is about twice the size and contains about twice the number of neurons as those who have a female gender identity.

In my case, my genitalia unfortunately formed as male (I assume that I am XY), but possibly since my mother took a good bit of the synthetic female hormone DES (which has been known to cause "boys" to be born transsexual), my gender identity was female (I had SRS four years ago, thankfully).

Many of the women that I know who have transitioned were born intersexed, and that does not seem surprising in the least.

I wish all of you the very best in life.

Hugs,

Kelly

[1] The studies mentioned:

http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtc0106.htm

http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/85/5/2034

It is highly probable that I am intersexed as well, but because it really isnt as important for me to research it, I just keep saving for SRS. Its more important to me right now. I figure, TS or IS... its just a label anyway. I still need surgery (Im well on my way- almost there, thank the maker) so why worry about excess problems?

I find this is increasingly common. Thanks for your research! Hopefully it helps others along...