User talk:Gwyer

Hermaphrodite and Hermaphroditus
Hi, I was informed by my endocrinologist that work done at UNC and elsewhere that I had a very rare mosaicism - 46XX,47XXY and that I was a "true hermaphrodite" according to DSM IV I believe - this was over 10 years ago. I've only got the APA DSM V to hand at the moment.

Anyhows .... The lady responsible for the hermaphrodite entry (sorry, forgot your name) would seem an MD but for a comment that suggested that human hermaphrodites do not exist .... Then as a disambiguation she felt the term intersex more appropriate. ....... Then ...... They are so rare anyhow. Sorry if I misrepresented anything I was managing an extremely noisy young gay womens club last night - the DJ was crap and I had to "declinch" no less than 5 pairs of the amouros little darlings. I have a headache.

Yes, the rare mosaicisms are indeed rare - very roughly 1 in a million live births. I've only met two other persons who have described themselves as such - one in London, the other Raul introduced me to was a prostitute in Havana - going by the latter although our ethnicities were different the external phenotypical features were reasonably similar - tending to the female in general but possessing prodigious clitori and a vague androgynous appearance. I was told that I was only fertile as a female and thankfully as I didn't possess testicles my ovaries were in the correct positions.

Why we were very rare - in short the practice of amateur eugenics by upper middle class western women. In the never ending pursuit of the perfect baby amniocentesis revealing an odd karyotype automatically prompted abortion. A women's right to chose? Ar#e! So I'm to be denied a fulfilling life - three PhDs, the contribution of three new drugs on the market etc etc.

After taking action it was ruled in the supreme court that if detected in future both MD and patient would face at least 10 years in "club fed" plus an unlimited fine.

In stark contrast to the wests non-acceptance of diversity I was on holiday near Bodrum in Turkey and I noticed people looking at me - chatting to each other - pointing at their for head and throat and tentively looking back at me. It would appear that the excellently written Hermaphroditus entry you now have posseses the answer, People kept on bringing me wee gifts - my money was good nowhere - plenty of babies to bless - villages to bless and a bit of lounging by the pool putting back the local brew.

Presumably the for head - throat thing was an indication of indetermate gender - no Adams apple - no brow ridge. Hermaphroditus liked visiting humans and walking amongst them - apparently this belief has been very tenacious in this region where one would expect Islam to prevail.

Finally - no, I do not have a meseinistic complex and yes - I'm thinking of popping back say next year - I suppose one can liken it to the pagan practice of forming a "statue" of the earth mother every year in Ireland, my country of birth, at the bottom of key fields out in the boonies - the local priests either do their bits in blistering sermons - others may reflect and simply see it as an "each way" bet.

Thank you for your time.

Gwyer (talk) 14:02, 21 February 2015 (UTC)