Like I said in my other post I have had counseling. At 3 1/2 to 5 years old, I had counseling from the Pediatric Psychology staff at the hospital where I had my surgery done to see how as a child I felt about having what was something that could of passed as a penis and it was much longer than an enlarged clitoris and I voided out of it. Even though I have ovaries and a uterus plus only female chromosomes the doctors wanted to make sure that I indentified as being female before they did surgery. Sometimes you really don't feel really male or female because of CAH but I have had wonderful counseling for this. 

To answer Sue's question, the surgery was done because of my answer's to the Psychology Staff when I was five years old. From reviewing my medical records, no one had any problems with me waiting to have surgery either. When I was five, surgery was done on my completely fused vagina ( fused labia if you want to get specific ) they could not do a clitoral reduction but it was tried to no avail and I ended up with a clitorectomy. Doctors are not Gods, they do the best they can. That was 1975 and this surgery is still considered experimental today in 2001.

  Julie, I think your idea's are super. I hope it works for that little girl. A child would also have to be watched in the back seat of a bus also so that the little boys on the bus would not say " hey, look what I have" and actually show her their penis. Little boys love to get reactions out of little girls if only for the shock value. As a child it was easy for me to realize the difference between boys and girls even under my parents supervision. Again, as I stated in my other post. As a five year, I came to the conclusion that girl puppies were smooth and boy puppies were not. Therefore, I was girl human and what I was born with was not something that girls had. This became very obvious to me because I also grew up around horses.

 Surgery is a trade off. One doctor said, " There is a fall to having CAH and surgery lessens the fall." To myself these are helpful words.

Sincerely,

Aimee