I honestly think being intersex is WAY more common than a lot of people realize.

got suspicious about weird hormone results. went to gender clinic. yes thats weird probably pcos. referred, for Better Expertise. doctor im referred to immediately says pcos without asking me a single question, just on my labs. i who had read up on intersex resources and wanted to check every possibility, push for a NCAH test. "oh, you dont have that," they say, "your results would have to be crazy high to have that, and besides, its so rare, ive only seen one case in 7 years." hm. methinks this is because you dont test for it. i bug them for a test just in case. (he has not asked me any of the questions to rule out CAH.) they agree to do it. (they did not seem to know what NCAH is, just CAH as when i said it they got confused, and i had to say congenital adrenal hyperplasia for them to recognize what i meant.) my results are late by like a month. (supposed to come in 5 business days.) they never get back to me to follow up. i take my results back to my gender clinic. their eyes go wide. they say to bug that doctor again because they shouldve followed up with me, bc i need these tests redone to confirm, then to get THOROUGHLY tested for NCAH because somethings very obviously up. girl.

It's a bit difficult for me to show intersex pride because I can't help but feel as though I'm being "TMI" about my genitals. I know that intersex doesn't just refer to that, but can I trust that other people do? I grew up pretty ashamed of my pseudo vagina and honestly I don't want to have somebody confront me about that when I'm just tryna be prideful on pride month.

NCAH (?) culture is trying to get diagnosed, but being told because we have an atypical presentation and symptoms, we "don't qualify" and "can't have CAH." I was also told that CAH and POTS have zero overlap and ambiguous genitalia isn't "normal" for CAH. 🫩🫩🫩

I’ve recently realized that I am intersex. It was a little bit disconcerting to realize that yet another thing is categorically Different about me, but after processing it for a couple days, it really feels like no big deal.