. . . that it’s all part and parcel of a parent’s desire to protect their child. As an adult, you are well able to handle the comments and whispers but most children are not. Many adults that aren’t familiar with CAH can’t handle it and will think the worst of the situation. One person who posts here occasionally had her husband divorce her because her daughter was born severely virilized. If memory serves me correctly, he mumbled an explination to his family that the baby was "some kind of hermaphrodite".

As we push into the awareness of the medial community, we’d much prefer that we lead with the seriousness of the condition overall, rather than as something that looks like the cover of a tabloid.