Yearly update with the Nurse Practitioner

Today, I had my early update with my Nurse Practitioner to check my Hormone levels and a status update.  One thing she asked me was that whether I considered myself to be Male. I know she told me Medically I am male but because of my Micropenis and ambiguous genitalia. I am classed as being Intersex/DSD (Disorders of Sexual Development).

So for me, I just see myself as an incomplete male and an incomplete female. Which as a result is more in the area of biological indeterminate gender. I’m not nowhere near a Natural Normal biological male and female. I’m stuck in between and medically induced to make the appearance of looking male. Though how I see myself, I don’t see myself as a normal male or a female at all. I just see myself as someone stuck in between male and female. As a result, I am just a biological indeterminate gender and don’t have a natural gender to begin with. So naturally, I am neither male or female. I’m more like a tomboy in between both.

My Nurse Practitioner sees me as being Intersex/DSD and classes me as having Intersex/DSD. She knows about the DSD (Disorders of Sexual Development) manual and knows that Kallmann’s syndrome is classed as a Disorders of Sexual Development, which results me being classed as an Intersex condition as well.

One thing she did tell me is that medically, my Hormones are near a normal Male. She even told me, If I wasn’t on HRT, my Hormone levels, Naturally would not be near the level of a Natural human Male. So because of my genetic condition my Hormone levels are medically induced and I know that if I wasn’t on Hormones, they would be at a very low level.

As far as identifying as a Male, biologically no. That’s because biologically I was never born male and because of the micropenis and ambiguous genitalia. I’m just an incomplete male and an incomplete female. In terms of Genetics and DNA, I am just in the middle between a man and a woman. Though Medically, I am induced to look like a male. Without it, I would just look like young kid about to hit puberty.

So for me, My hormones are at a normal level and they are medically enhanced to make me look like a male, but Naturally, I will never be near a normal male or a normal female. It’s why for me, I just simply say I’m in the middle between male and female. I don’t see myself as male nor female and that’s because of Biology and Genetics. Also I do like my Nurse Practitioner is the main reason why I am going to college to be like her as well.

Intersex gender neutral on campus housing

Here’s something that I would like for everyone to ponder and think about. What do you all think about Intersex people being allowed to have gender neutral housing on college campuses. Even though Gender Neutral housing is only designed for LGBT people and that intersex people are excluded from Gender Neutral housing. I am wondering because at my University, they are allowing Gender Neutral housing for Gay, lesbian, Bisexual and transgender student. They are allowing transgender students to room with the gender they think they are and are allowing gay and lesbian students to room together.

Now as an Intersex person with an indeterminate gender and no biological gender to begin with, wouldn’t gender neutral housing be a perfect fit for me or any intersex person going to college. I think Gender neutral housing would be a fine fit for intersex people because intersex people have no biological gender to begin with and the vast majority of intersex people such as myself have an indeterminate gender.  Intersex people such as myself don’t fit with the male or female gender system because of what were born with and have no biological gender to begin with.

So I am wondering here, what do you all think of the idea of allowing intersex people who go to college have Gender Neutral housing and be allowed to room with whatever gender they most feel comfortable and safe with. Do any of you think intersex people should be included with Gender Neutral housing and what do you think if an intersex person were to room with a biological woman.

Note: This is cross-posted from my “Living Kallmann’s syndrome” Blog

Related articles

• Intersex gender neutral housing (kallmannssyndrome.wordpress.com)
• Women’s Colleges Examine Transgender Policies (usatoday.com)

Interesting Biology class

Oh boy what an interesting day in Biology class. It was very interesting because I was not only a test subject for the lab portion I had to give a 3 minute presentation on genetics and my genetic condition. In the class I was giving a lecture on my genetic condition and I was telling people that I have Kallmann’s syndrome. It was a shock when people didn’t realize that I was younger looking in age. So I nailed an extra credit on my test which was very cool. The other was in lab when we were doing the blood types and genetic. I finally knew what my blood type was and that I always thought I was type O, but now I was able to learn that I was Type A+. Now I have to change my dog tags to reflect the new blood type. The one thing about my biology teacher, she looks thin and very good looking.