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Your E2 would have to get down to about 12 before your joints would get dry and T would have to be under 300 to affect bone density. Look on amazon, they have estrogen and progesterone cream. Probably cheaper than most people's copays for prescription estrogen, lol. https://www.amazon.com/Bioidentical-Supplements-Micronized-Bio-Identical-Menopause/dp/B004XJIDEO?th=1

Yay OP! Pls check out Dr P. Hindmarsh's blog @ https://cahisus.co.uk/ - he's a UK based Endo, and his book (thru amz.com) - https://www.amazon.com/Congenital-Adrenal-Hyperplasia-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/0128114835/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr3_1?keywords=congenital+adrenal+hyperplasia+dr+hindmarsh&qid=1663618130&sr=8-1-fkmr3

I'm getting more and more inspired ever since published the book (Amazon link). And I keep wondering ever since what are the other ways I can directly contribute.

I even got contacted by a small group in Croatia dedicated to intersex and trans people but I declined, for now. I can't see myself in this position at this moment, as I hoped this book is helpful enough. At least for a moment since I'm trying to scale up my small business and earn some living wage.

And I'm a bit exhausted from the writing and publishing process TBH, which seemed neverending (and expensive). I went the traditional route, with a publisher, I didn't want to half-ass it over Kindle self-publishing. I'm good at English but not that good.

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Sex and gender are not interchangeable.

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Sex (male, female, intersex) is biological, and gender (man, woman, genderqueer) is psycho-sociological.

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From page 451 of the DSM-V (which is page 486 of the reader):

"The need to introduce the term gender arose with the realization that for individuals with conflicting or ambiguous biological indicators of sex (i.e., "intersex"), the lived role in society and/or the identification as male or female could not be uniformly associated with or predicted from the biological indicators and, later, that some individuals develop an identity as female or male at variance with their uniform set of classical biological indica­tors. Thus, gender is used to denote the public (and usually legally recognized) lived role as boy or girl, man or woman, but, in contrast to certain social constructionist theories, biolog­ical factors are seen as contributing, in interaction with social and psychological factors, to gender development."

https://www.docdroid.net/bc2i8sN/dsm-5.pdf#page=486

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Intersex people have been associated with the mercury symbol, as have virgin women, unisex, quicksilver, transgender, commerce, communication, hermaphroditic plants, etc.

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I don't know if you consider yourself transgender or genderqueer.

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You might also consider a bisexual symbol (there are many) in or on either the genderqueer or transgender flag colours.

Definitely following this. I haven't seen anything too good yet. I like the book An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Soloman, and I think the main character of that is. There is a list of OwnVoices: https://www.obvibase.com/p/BRhZeTG6GZyYUt2G/?location=%7B%22type%22%3A%22table%22%2C%22databaseId%22%3A%22BRhZeTG6GZyYUt2G%22%2C%22queryPath%22%3A%7B%22recordPath%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22columnPath%22%3A%5B%221%22%5D%7D%7D

For me oddly the ones that are most legible as having intersex-esque themes are NOT explicitly, or have things like vaginismus, e.g. Lily from Sex Education or the woman from My Husband Won't Fit. These read like fully developed characters even if not explicitly intersex, but they feel intersex because they struggle with anatomy in similar ways.

I'd get something like this:

Spermcheck Fertility Home Test Kit for Men- Shows Normal or Low Sperm Count- Easy to Read Results-Convenient, Accurate, Private https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007N8FWB4/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_2NWQ2T520Y3PRVGFS037

I was not threatening you. You ought not feel threatened to be celebrated. The Golden Age Of Lesbian Erotica celebrated intersex people sexually, for instance.

https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-Lesbian-Erotica/dp/0977431142