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BonesOfTheMoon

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Might want to get hormonal blood work done. Are you female? You could have androgen insensitivity syndrome or something.

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Outside of North America maybe, that I don’t know. But in North America they tell the parents they won’t know the gender for a while, to name and dress and groom the child as the parents choose, but they let them know it might change. It’s so rare though, I’ve seen one case in 20 years of hospital work.

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No haha. Did you read the book about the boy whose penis was burned off so the infamous Dr John Money told them to make him into a girl. They did and it was terrible.

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It is similar yes.

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Well I don’t love hearing it, but I respect your choice. I just hope you do it somewhere easy to clean up. Put some plastic sheeting down.

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I actually had some made by a restaurant chef and that was lovely. But the stuff in the corner store when I was reading the Narnia books was an utter horror.

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I think also some people of certain nationalities quite like it.

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Probably not, from someone who worked in pediatric urology and endocrinology. They don’t tend to do surgery until you are older because you need to be old enough to determine what your gender identity is very clearly, which is not clear sometimes with intersex conditions. It’s a really bad decision to make too early. Probably what you had was an undescended testicle or hydrocele or something.

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Oh this is just a funny honey bunny. But the one I had did last 20 years.

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Well I took this photo from elsewhere so I am not wearing a hat.

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