In my child’s case, it was a particular variant of non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a condition that manifests during puberty. There are 108 known variants. In her case, it caused hyperandrogenism, gender dysphoria, and when she hit puberty, her body began masculinizing naturally.
Her brain was recognizing the free-floating adrenal androgens as testosterone and set her puberty signals accordingly. My beautiful baby girl was morphing into a boy; deep voice, facial hair, dense muscle, squared jaw. If you met her, you would think she is a studious and polite young man.
Consulted with specialists as far away as Canada. Spent at least $30K trying to find a cure, only to be told we were too late to slow it down and it was only going to get worse. It consumed years of my life and was hell.
But even here on FR, we get the dipsh*ts that know next to nothing about these conditions and presume everyone is a pretender.
Thank you for knowing that’s not the case.
zdo you know how common, or uncommon, are these naturally occurring conditions?
Every parent is upset by anything going “wrong” with their child. I hope your daughter can find peace with her condition.
Thank you very much for all the information.
Something I think about a lot is conservatives need to avoid being put in extreme corners by over reacting to the left.
For example, a lot of this transgenderism is a trend affecting vulnerable adolescents.
However, in denying the reality of that transgenderism, we shouldn’t become ignorant that people are born every day with just about every variation we can think of.
There are people born with both sets of genitals, genitals that stay inside the body, hormonal imbalances, etc. And I have no desire to criticize or mistreat those folks or any other transgenders for that matter, even pretenders.
Likewise this applies to things like not hating any race (based on race) just because they have radical and otherwise undesirable members.
There’s a lot of provoking of conservatives going on and too many on our side think it’s cool to just talk trash in response, which I admit is very tempting.
I admit my own Italian cultural background tells me that many in our society just need to be told to “F off” rather than be reasoned with. But that’s when they cross the line and get in your face.
Just my thoughts.