Should be thrown in jail for good. This person thinks they're a Christian?

Everything in my garden grows differently, no two plants are alike, even those of the same species. For example, my two squash plants are quite different. The biological mechanisms that drive their growth and development, together with the soil they grow in and the water they receive - all are different. I am not surprised that one plant has branches and leaves that are different than the other or that one flowers more.

Why then do we not observe and marvel in the range of humans? The only answer I can come up with is fear and ignorance - helped by a large [over]dose of stupidity. These prejudices are taught from infancy by religions and society and if you don't fit in the pigeon holes of the small minds [and most of us don't] they are scared of you.

My squash is left to grow as it will. They are a marvel. May we grant the same respect to each of us, no matter where where we are found in Earth's garden.

hello all commenters. This is Me and yes one and only Kailana Sidrandi Alaniz. Intersex True-Hermaphrodite XY/XO w/CAH.

First of all I want you all to know, that I really do appreciate Gerald Callahan's interest in getting subjuect volunteers to contribute to his book.

I use no pen names. I am an open book, but like most of my life, what you read about me was heavily edited. Basically a great deal of the surgeries I have had were Redacted out of what did make it into the book.

1st of all. I was born Dorothy Maree Alaniz, thought to be an ambigous girl with CAH. My original birth certificate does exist but like most things sealed. 26 days after my birth I was on paper given a Male sex Marker. I was 5 months old, when my laparoscopy was done, ie middle of March 1971, 16th or 17th, not exactly sure as that is one of my many medical records that once reviewed was still in my local childhood records but was redacted when I paid for personal copies of my records. I know I had several surgeries early in life, but the only one I am honestly aware of is at 18 months of age. I have a picture of me in the hospital, sitting on a bed, which my father says is me and it does look like me but considering how few baby pictures I have does look alot like my picture of me at 2 1/2. I do know of other surgeries, living with scar all the way across my chest as a kid wasnt so easy, and that is amazing cause its really not that bad, and now at 38 barely noticable. Now at 18 years of age during surgery to remove a patch of pilonidol cysts/synus's over my tailbone I had my chest ie Gynocomastia Reduced. Basically my man boobs were scraped away, so also at 38 years of age, I still have scars left over from that surgery as well. What none of you nai-sayers understand is that Forced surgery without consent continues long into adulthood. I was 18 legally an adult and noone asked me if it was ok to do. they did it anyways, and like most of my life it happened again at 31 years of age, when my ovaries were moved. ligation and resection, which is also a common surgery for Intersexed true-hermaphrodites when ovaries are present and a male gender has been chosen.

I do seriously hate the use of the word Transexual, and inthis book my use of the word Transsition. I was pretty sure I had wrote I am reassigning from an intersexed surgically assigned male to that of an intersexed surgically assigned female.

I like most, within the intersexed community, do not approve of the use of mixing Intersex and Transsexualism. They are two entirely different conditions, the first a medical condition the 2nd most often considered a psychological condition. Though that may be changing. I do not identify as a Transexual person. Because the good old HBS(Harry Benjamin Standards of Care) guidelines for meeting a transsexual diagnosis actually rules out anyone from meeting a transsexual Diagnosis when Intersexed medical conditions are present. They only acknowledge geneticly normal men and women with cross gender identification as being Transsexual.

Now Zoe Brain posted she is both Intersexed and Trans. She can do so if she chooses too. Most Intersexed want nothing to do with anyone assuming Transsexuality has anything to do with being born Intersexed, ie with an ambigous body. We in Intersexed community are fighting for our rights as human beings to self determine what we are. We fighting for acceptance to be left alone to find our own way in life. Please do not confuse Intersex and Transsexuality. Regardless of what genital normalizing surgeries we have been forced to have, none of us are Transexual. We are considered as the gender that we are assigned by use of surgery.

There are those in the Trans community who think Intersex are treated better then Transsexuals are. They are terribly misguided. They only see the requirements that they must follow to be approved for their surgeries. They do not see that we are consistently medical abused over and over again and sometimes just as rejected by family as they are.

Fact remains that many people are extremely judgemental when they have no understanding of what it means to be intersexed.

For Zoe Brain, whom I have argued with several times. Please do us all a favor and quit combining Intersex with Transsexuality. There are just as many studies proving that HRT is the reason for Brain developmental changes in Trans people as there are for the BCT region of the hypothalimus being of similar shape in Trans women as normal women. Fact those studies are estremely pathetic evidence.

If you are intersexed as you claim to be, then knock it off. All you are doing is allowing parents of intersex children to opt for surgeries to fix a problem so that they have kids who wont be trans, won't be gay, or lesbian or bi. Please stop posting information on Intersex groups whom you claim are transphobic.