...so you’re on safari with a bunch of tourists, bush whacking your way through the jungle. You know one of those jungles that you see on all the action movies... the sort where you have to be a complete masochist to even step foot in. You have been wading through leech-ridden swamps for days and bitten by mosquitoes the size of …well I don’t know… pretty big ones anyhow. You have to burn the leeches off every night with the aid of your Swiss army knife blade heated over the campfire. All the others have the same problems. One day you’re tramping through as you have in previous days and you have become so blaze you have no qualms about the blood-sucking leeches anymore. All of a sudden you feel this horrendous screaming pain in your butt cheek. Yes, what a place to pick! So you were bit by a poisonous snake on the butt right, so what! Just a case of getting one of the others to suck out the poison ok? Except, no one seems to want to do the job, er…I mean would you do it? Of course your searching frantically for the swamps and staggering as you go with the poison …I mean where is a green clean blood-sucking leech when you really need one! Moral: I'm sure there is a perfectly good time in ones life when one would need a blood sucking-leech! Anyways, another time, in the trenches in Normandy during World War II and your lying there half dying for days now with shrapnel wounds on your left leg. The only thing that is keeping you alive and stopping your gangrene-ridden leg from poisoning your blood is your friendly maggot. Yes your all saying ewww, but it's true. that's how some soldiers actually survived the trenches for weeks on end. Those maggots saved their lives. Need I say more here? I’ve heard stranger than this… i.e. some people claim to be able to remove a headache in minutes by just applying pressure to a certain spot on your foot! Let’s face it; there are stranger more unorthodox ways of dealing with health out there. We ALL try them at some point. What's the point in rubbishing a term that is actually used by the Paediatricans and the Doctors then. You do not get your average GP or Pediatrician trying all the other alternative treatments or advocating them (not that he doesn’t use them himself, he just cannot guarantee them the same as the good old reliable and proved scientific stuff that he scripte like hydrocortisone or florinef) but he has NO problem using the word Intersex on a file when it relates to our daughters Ambiguous genitalia. I guess it has something to do with the fact that even he/she would not be so close-minded as to reject the facts coming to light these days. That’s the way it is unfortunately, and perhaps they will eventually start telling parents the truth. That there are no guarantees that finishing the outside (as they so term it) is going to make one jot of difference to the spiritual person on the inside. You know the one that was affected by all those androgens in utero. This is not an argument. This Message Board is supposed to be a meeting point for parents to work through all issues related to CAH, even ambiguous genitalia and the spin off from androgen exposure in utero. So they term it Intersex for now. Or they termed it hermaphrodites some years ago. It still needs to be discussed and issues worked through for some. We started by just advising parents of an up and coming event and discussing the complexities. New folks coming to the boarde Adina, may be coming to find out about issues like this. No one has the right to deny them the knowledges when they exist.