In 2021, at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Hattula, in Finland, archaeologists discovered the grave of a Viking warrior, the body wearing female clothes, on a soft feather blanket with trinkets, and two swords. They believe that the person had Klinefelter syndrome, giving rise to XXY chromosomes. This had probably been a person respected in their eleventh-century society, wearing women's clothing, fighting as a warrior, perhaps understood to be one of the many sexes on the huge spectrum of sexual identity that was then known but which we have tried to forget.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
So I moved back to Arcane and wanted to hatch a dragon in celebration. I used my notn funds to buy a few arcane eggs and.....after about 10 I got lucky.
I am not a doctor and none of this is medical advice
There's lots of great information on this website for intersex people who are more on the feminine side of the sex spectrum, but what about those who were assigned to the more masculine experience? Here's a few signs that you might be intersex:
Body talk below the break
- testes that fail to descend in your teens
- penis significantly smaller than others in your age group
- urinating from somewhere besides the tip of your penis, or having to sit down to pee
- Development of "incorrect" secondary sexual characteristics at puberty (for example breasts or large or puffy areolas)
- significant difficulty conceiving a child or infertility
- unexplained significant scarring on your genitals
- mysterious doctor examinations and/or use of medical creams at a young age
- significant difficulty growing facial hair compared to other men in your family
This list isn't exhaustive, and none of these necessarily mean that you're intersex, but they may be a sign that you want to talk with your doctor, your parents, requisition medical records or explore more.
Ultimately nobody else can determine if the label intersex belongs to you. That's something you need to determine through self reflection, introspection, guidance and community.
I have a question what’s the difference between PAIS symptoms and Klinefelter Syndrome
Cause I am intersex and I know it sounds like it’s faking I am not, but I have feminine curves,slight breasts, low testosterone, no Adams apple and no facial hair growth and less body hair and I was assigned male at birth
super late on this but i dont know too much about PAIS or KS. i mean they come about differently, PAIS is due to androgen insensitivity whereas KS is from having XXY chromosomes.
edit; my info was wrong but this glossary may be helpful, especially if there's something else that may fit your presentation other than KS and PAIS.
Just wanted to update real quick since I've been relatively silent on here (THAT IS A GOOD THING FOR NOW I PROMISE)
First off, while I'm still trying to work out the clunkiness of Chapter 9 of XXY I skipped to Chapter 14 (aka the next intermission chapter), and now that's basically finished more or less, it only needs a couple hundred more words and its first draft will be solid
I've been trying to get comfortable with breaking away from linearity in my writing cause my writing process has hardly ever been organized properly in the first drafts, I'm talking I'd make a whole separate google doc for just one singular scene that I'd be debating whether or not to keep
But I promise I have been working on it, even if it's only a few hundred words a day or a single sentence I'm still working on it, but I don't wanna get anyone's hopes up on a release date just yet
Thanks for being patient with me, my motivation for this fic has been kinda murky for a while (mainly due to my motivation to write in the first place being a struggle) but I'm definitely excited for upcoming chapters so I'm just using that as my motivation