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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I know this is all very new (and that CHA has health issues apart from the gender issues) but I wonder if you'd be helped by reading about intersex and gender issues in general. The fact is, gender in the animal kingdom (including humans) has never really been wholly binary!  In many ways your child (if they are CAH) is extremely lucky to be born today, when we know so much more about gender differences and are more accepting.  I can understand it's a shock, but it's going to be OK and will open your mind to a whole new world of information and ways of seeing categories that you formerly thought were entirely fixed.  [/quote]

I've been doing a good bit of this, and it's been helpful and enlightening to some extent - I've certainly learned a lot about all the different ways people's development can and does diverge from what we consider the binary "norm." Even as a pretty progressive and well-educated person, I've had my eyes opened to a lot. On the other hand though, I've also encountered a lot of very fraught debate about the right way to raise a child who has a condition like this, arguments about whether corrective surgery is reasonable or beneficial or selfish or barbaric, and wading into those issues knowing I'll have decisions to make about those things in the future is what's contributing to a lot of my stress. It'd be helpful for me to hear from other parents on DCUM who've confronted those kinds of questions, or similar ones, but I know there may not be any folks like that since these conditions are somewhat rare. [/quote]

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