I am feeling genuinely sorry for Sophie, holy shit. I looked up her condition and it is awful to look at, can't imagine the utter panic her parents must have felt when they saw their little baby. I would be frozen in terror.
I've heard of people that were born with ambiguous genitalia that got surgery as babies, but never cared much about the follow up. Are there any more mainstream stories?
Anyway, we learn to trust doctors blindly because they have years of studies and medicine has been around for centuries, so they must know what's better for us, right? I mean, except the butchers here but I personally refuse to call them doctors.
Many forget that the medical field is evolving constantly and many practices of the past aren't done anymore. I don't distrust doctors 100%, but cases like this one, that seems that what was done was something regular of that era, makes me uneasy at times.
She mentioned that she stopped taking hormones. Since she has no testes too, is her body functioning with 0 sex hormones? How does it work?
I hope Sophie's existence, from now on, is a peaceful one.
I guess she's just experieing.. Whatever women experience post menopause, maybe? She mentioned she actually has more energy and a bit of a sex drive now, which yeah, post menopausal women still bang. They also mention enjorong not being on a hormonal mental health rollercoaster low key all the time, once the body calms into the new situation.
I think the prostate produces hormones, ig there will be something going on.
But yeah, I really liked the recognition of "it doesn't matter what skin I'm in, I need to be happy".
A strong person who has come from a good, stable family. She acted out when she was feeling fucked up, but that solid basis is probably what allowed her to claw a way back to feeling settled in herself.
You've got to think about the 15000 other people who had this op, who had some more unfortunate life circumstances and events. Then it becomes, I suppose, like the Reimer kids situation.
It was good of the surgeon to meet with the family, too.
That probably did a lot for her, in terms of not hating and trying to ascribe blame, at a faceless person.
Realising that it was a fuck up with best intentions, leaves room for starting to forgive and accept, which is the only way you're ever gonna be moving past it healthily.