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re: re: Your right Betsy it's Dana Rush Mar. 1st, 2005 6:53pm
Dana, you have spoken from the heart and I have to agree with your comments. When I first came to browse on this board, I kept coming across Betsy's anti-surgery, CAH=intersex, etc, comments. I thought, "gosh! This person is so bitter and twisted!" I know, Betsy, that you're very anti-surgery due to your own personal experience, but as Dana (and many other moms feel), it is OUR personal choice when we decide to have surgery done, and that choice has been well-thought over. We don't just decide in just one second to have surgery.
I'm sure if your surgery was not a botched job, you wouldn't be jumping down people's throats every time surgery is mentioned. You keep insisting that CAH is an intersex condition. You say it's in medical books and doctors use this term. How do you know that it's not wrongly used purely because it was an old term previously used and people have just carried on wrongly calling it intersex and it's just been passed on to the next student, etc? I still TOTALLY disagree with you when you say CAH is intersex. It completely annoys me and offends me when you use that term. My daughter is NOT between (inter) the 2 sexes! If people like you keep brandishing that old terminology to describe CAH, it's no wonder that term is still here.
I know when I was a child, the term "deaf and dumb" was used but now, it's known as "deaf and mute". "Dumb" just doesn't sound politcally correct anymore. Same with the old term to describe Downs Syndrome. You don't hear anyone calling a Downs child a "Mongol". Things move on and as science progresses over the years, as we learn more about CAH, we should realise that the terminology describing it as "intersex" is no longer correct. But, still, you use this in all your write-ups! Guess old habits are hard to break, but we can all hope. One day.......
