There are some postings on the web by people with dual genitalia. I
will not present the site(s) here, but as always, it is informative to
read personal accounts of different experiences.
Heather
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>Nobody addressed my earlier question about whether it is better, given
>the
>human worship of the penis, if a person is born with micropenis that
>surgery
>and hormones make the gender a girl rather than suffer an entire
>lifetime as
>a non-functioning "male." What got me interested in this subject is
>having
>learned about micropenis issues from men with spina bifida on a list
>similar
>to this. I had never heard about micropenis before hearing these men
>discuss
>their pain at never being able to function with a woman and never being
>able
>to trust a woman they are with (if they do have a relationship) for
>fear she
>will always want a "real man." Is this lifetime of trauma "kinder"
>than
>having the person raised as a different gender?
>After seeing the discussion of micropenis on several lists I searched
>for
>mailing lists of persons with this condition. To my surprise, I found
>one.
>But most of those involved seem to have dealt with it by becoming
>homosexuals. (The men on the spina bifida list, to my knowledge, were
>not.)
>This seemed to support the claims held by some that homosexuality is
>not
>predetermined genetically but is a choice taken as the least painful
>route
>for those who did not feel secure in other relationships (some say with
>their
>fathers but in this case with women who might not accept them as males
>unable
>to function as such).
>Interesting discussions, but I'd like to make the call that while we
>talk
>theories and that's fine, to remember the bottom line in all human
>affairs
>(no pun intended) is relationship. If these people cannot have
>fulfilling
>sexual relationships as men, it seems to not give them the opportunity
>to
>function as females condemns them to ostracism and trauma as
>non-functioning
>males or as equally ostracised homosexuals.
>ARIEL
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Heather MacDuffie
Center for Community Inclusion
University of Maine
5717 Corbett Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5717
581-1239
Heather MacDuffie
Center for Community Inclusion
University of Maine
5717 Corbett Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5717
581-1239
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