I remember reading on this board a couple of months ago a post from a journalist writing for a teen magazine, asking for a young girl to contact her to give her life story.  I think Danny removed the contact address, rightly believing that this was yet another ploy by the media to exploit our vulnerable children and sensationalise CAH.   Other board readers also expressed their disapproval and boy were they right!  I have just read the subsequent ’article’ in Bliss magazine (published in the UK), the title of which is above.  Other quotes in bold were:

"We are not freaks... we were just born between two sexes",  "17 year old Jennifer Kilmartin’s rare illness left her feeling and looking like a lad" 

She continually refers to her ’penis’, talks about her surgeries, how she suffers from violent mood swings and about trying to commit suicide due to the condition and how she grew up feeling like a boy (due to the excess testosterone in her body).

I am sure board users will understand my horror and the upset I felt reading this story.  How encouraging and helpful was this article to families affected by CAH?????