Hey Y'all,

  I'm curious and I want to learn. I've been meaning to ask this question for awhile. From my point of view as someone that has CAH and talking with many women that have CAH. It seems like women with CAH reside in two different "camps." 

 In the one camp of women.  There are those that identify with being an intersexual person . Some perfer to call themselves " other" opposed to female or male. Also it seems like most of the women that identify as intersexual people are generally lesbians. People in this camp identify intersexual as no different then how people use the terms hetrosexual, homosexual, female,or male.

  In the other camp of women, Intersexual is understood to represent an all inclusive medical term for people that have ambiguous or englaged genatalia. This group of women  seem to indentify as female and generally they are hetrosexual. These women have boyfriends or are married and have children.  I'm aware of three women that have children.

 I've been wondering why such a difference?  The only thing that I could come up with is that each of us were exposed to a distinct different amount of adrogens that went through the brain when we were in utero.

 You are all probly thinking what is the difference. It creates problem in peoples lives that didn't have the larger adrogen "wash" that someone else did before they were born.   I RESPECT someone that feels that they identify as an intersexual person or an other. It seems like any tv show that I've seem paints us as all the same and we are not.

 From reading about other people with CAH and corresponding with some. I used to think ...Well.... geez....I can't be female because these women with CAH are calling themselves " others" or intersexuals. I must some how be in denial. I've gone through alot of interspection on this and I'm absolutely a female, I was not born with anything male, no testes ect. I have female chromosomes. The adrogens that males and female have are surpressed by cortisone just like someone that doesn't have CAH. The only difference is that I take my cortisone by mouth and so called normal people can make it themselves.

 Sincerely,

Aimee