Growing Up Bi Gender
A Bi Gender Lifes Story
Having both genders within my brain and person
By
Michael GreyFeather
Michelle Lynn GreyFeather
This will be just short out takes of my life growing up Bi Gender.
Growing up was a difficult time for me as well as any of us who are members of the Transgender Community. ... I was born a boy, at least on the out side. I can remember as far back as when I was 7 years old. I always had these dreams of wearing dresses and playing with dolls and being a girl but when I woke up I wasn't a little girl, I was still a little boy. I often wondered why I had these dreams but at that age I never really understood much about my feelings because they were mixed a lot of times and really to young to want to understand. I can remember also dreaming of being a cowboy, wearing six guns and riding horses, wearing cowboy clothes and a cowboy hat. When I woke up then I was still a little boy, went and put on my cowboy boots, got my six guns out and went outside and played cowboys and Indian's or army with my buddies. I often wondered, if I dream I was a boy and woke up and I was still a boy, then why when I dreamed I was a girl didn't I wake up and be a girl? I remember asking my mother this question several times growing up and remember her words even today. They're just dreams honey, they're not real. My mom just did not know how wrong she was, or did she?
I came out to my mother about 5 or 6 years ago and when I did she told me something that shocked the hell out of me but it helped to put things together. She told me that I had been born with Ovaries and a Uterus and that she had them surgically removed when I was about 3 years old. My mom never told anyone else this and when she passed away she took this secret with her to heaven. My mom was the greatest mom ever. Getting back to my life's story ...
When I was playing cowboys I sometimes would have flashes of being a little girl wearing a dress like the girls wore in the cowboy saloons. I would stop playing right in the middle of a six gun shoot out and just sit there and day dream of being this saloon girl wearing all the pretty dresses you seen on cowboy TV shows. I would daydream right up until one of my buddies hit me and told me to wake up, we're moving out. Usually when I had those flashes back then they never ended right away. The flashes would stay with me most of the day and I would wish I was a girl instead of a boy playing cowboys and Indians. Part of the day when I had those flashes and I seen little girls wearing pretty dresses and playing house and playing hopscotch and other girlie games I would go over and join in and play with the girls until my buddies came by and asked me, being real smart, hey, are you a little girl? They would laugh and make fun of me because I was playing girl games instead of playing baseball and cowboys or football. It use to really get me fired up and I would go over, put my hands on my hips and tell the guys I ain' no girl and then one of the guys would push me and say then why were you playing with the girls, are you a sissy. That started a fight. I learned how to protect myself when I was a kid because of that. It got to the point no one would call me a little girl or a sissy any more when I played with the girls instead of the guys.
I often wanted to just be alone a lot of the time because when I had those flashes I learned that I would rather play girl games and be with the girls instead of my buddies. Me and my buddies back then were pretty close friends, especially when they found out I was not going to take being pushed around and called names because I liked to play with the girls a lot of the times. It was weird because one day I had all these feelings and desires of wanting to be a girl and wear girl clothes and do girl things but the next day I only had feelings for being a boy and doing boy things and wearing blue jeans and a T-shirts and being a bad ass so to speak.
As I grew older those feelings and flashes became more and more intense. One day I was a boy doing boy things and wrestling with the guys fighting and being a bad ass getting into trouble and then next day wanting to be a girl and feeling like I was a girl. it really felt like I was a girl because I had desires that my buddies sisters had wanting to play house, play dolls and girlie games and dress like them. I wanted long hair like them and wanted so bad to just act like them without being called names and having to fight. The desire to dress like them sometimes became over whelming but I knew from pass experiences from when I was younger that that was something I did not want to do and let anyone see me. I would dream of wearing beautiful dresses with my hair long and pretty. I would dream of being called a girl and living as a girl all the time. I was about 12 years old then.
I was confused a lot when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 years old and had those flashes and desires they became extremely intense, now more intense then ever before. It got to the point that I did not want my Male Genitals, I hated the sight of it and I hated doing boy things and wearing boy clothes. I hated going to school dressed like a boy. My hair by that time was really long and I loved it but a lot of times guys said I looked like a girl with my hair being so long. Other guys back then also had long hair but it was not as long as mine was. My hair was longer then all my friends sisters hair. By this time I had two sisters, one 3 years younger then me but her clothes would fit me because back then I was small and could wear my sisters clothes. When I was alone in the house when my parents went to the store or took my sisters to dance classes or other places I would put on my sisters clothes and sometimes my moms clothes and parade around the house and even go out back in the yard. We lived on a farm back then and no one could see me. At least that is what I thought. I was very cautious about going out because my girl friend lived across from our old barn on the other side of the corn field. Sometimes this desire and feeling would last for days and the intense feeling of being a girl made me happy and I just felt so right. In school I was asked why I walked like a girl because when I had these intense feelings of being a girl it seemed to have a affect on me in certain ways. One of these was the fact that I walked like a girl. I never really noticed because I though I was just walking normal, like anyone else was. At times when I was asked why I walked like a girl I just said I was clowning around, making fun of the way girls walked and that sort of started other guys walking like girls and making fun of them. That did not last long for the other guys who walked like girls making fun of them but for me it was something that just happened at times, many many times.
I was well liked in school, had a lot of friends and had a reputation for being a bad ass and getting into trouble. Spent a lot of time in the principles office and in detention. It was mostly to cover the fact that I had feelings that I was in fact a girl. This feeling lasted weeks and months and it was hard to hide the fact I felt like I was a girl and wanted nothing to do with being a boy. When I had these intense feelings and desires I hated doing farm work. I hated to plow the fields, I hated baling hay and loading it in the hay loft. I hated milking the cows and cleaning up the barn. All I wanted to do was be in the house with my sisters helping my mom do the cooking and house work. Usually when I had these intense feelings my work on the farm would get really slack, never finishing my chores. It got to the point that my step dad ask me if I was a little girl teasing me to no end calling me girlie names because he said I acted like a little girl. Often I would want to say yes, yes yes, I am a girl but I knew if I did that the shit would hit the fan for sure. I had my drums in the hay loft and often went up there and played my drums for hours trying to relieve the tension that had built up all day. I was about 17 at this point. I was the oldest of 3 step brothers and 2 sisters. I was pretty well built, very muscular from the farm work. Had plenty of girl friends and buddies and they always noticed when I had these intense changes and would always ask me what was wrong because I acted a lot different then usual.
Sometimes at night on the weekends and in the summer months I would sneak out with a bag of my sisters clothes when me and my friends did not have any plans. Get in my 57 Chevy Bel Air and went to a old barn on the other side of the corn field and changed my clothes. It felt great being dressed like a girl, it felt so normal. I had a mirror hidden there so I could look in the mirror and see myself as the girl I was. I even looked like a girl with my long beautiful hair, in fact I looked like a cute sexy girl. I would get in my car and just go for a ride for a couple hours hoping no one would see me or my car. It just felt so great being alone and just being me.
My car was pretty well known by my friends and the cops. Candy Apple Red with Black Roll Pleated Interior, Mag Wheels, Jacked up in the back with wide racing tires and duel pipes coming out the back and with a scoop on the hood covering 4 deuces sitting on top of the 427 Corvette engine me and my buddies put in. Unfortunately, one day in school one of my buddies asked me who was that girl driving my car the other night around 1 O:Clock in the morning. He said she had long hair just like yours and then hesitated looking real funny at me. He wanted to meet her, he thought she was pretty from what he could see of her. The one thing I was trying to avoid dressing at night and driving my car was getting caught or seen in my car dressed like a girl.
I only drove in places where no one really knew me or my car. That surprised me and caught me off guard and I got really nervous because I didn't know what to say. After hesitating and really without thinking out popped "you didn't see my car at that time I was home in bed". Then he said, well then someone has a car just like yours painted the same and with the same mag wheels and hood scoop. Trying to change the subject I asked him what he was doing out at 1 O:clock in the morning. He said he was just getting back from the drive in movies with his girl friend. He said he blew the horn at the car and when he did the car took off like a bat out of hell. I remembered that, but I didn't know it was my buddy at the time. He said it even sounded like your car when it took off. Are you sure it wasn't your car? As I started walking away I said, I'm late for class see you tonight at the Treat. The rest of that day I was trying to figure out what to tell him and his girl friend when I got to the Treat. I was really nervous and afraid I was about to be found out I was driving my car dressed like a girl. I remember this well because this was the very first time I thought I was going to get caught dressing like a girl and driving my car and for another really good reason you will learn about at the end of this paragraph. When I got to the Treat and met the rest of my buddies and my girl friend I found out something that shocked me to no end and turned my world upside down that night. My buddy who had asked me the question in school came up to me along with a couple other guys and told me that my girl friend had told them it was her driving the car and I was trying to keep her out of trouble because she did not have a drivers license and you were teaching her how to drive a four speed. Let me tell you, when I seen my buddy and friends coming at me I began sweating and really started getting nervous. I remember I could feel my gut getting tight and felt like a million butterflies in my stomach. I thought that was it, I had been discovered and they were coming to tease the hell out of me and maybe kick my ass. I remember there was my buddy and 5 or 6 other friends coming at me like they had a chip on their shoulders and wanted to start trouble. I was definitely relieved when the only thing they did was told me what my girl friend had told them and were not coming after me.
My buddies thought that what my girl friend had told them was so cool but by this time I was really confused and actually for the first time scared that my secret had been discovered by my girl friend. After talking to my buddies I went over to my girl friend and we walked outside and got in my car. I asked her why she told that story to my buddies. What she said totally blew my mind and knocked me for a loop. She began to tell me that she has known I dressed like a girl and drove my car at night at times for a while now and never told anyone or even let me know she knew. Really nervous now, I asked her how she found out. She told me that she had seen me several times coming out of the barn across from her house dressed like a girl getting into my car and driving away. She said she at first I thought you had a girl in the barn with you but then she said she never seen me come out and then the car left. She said that when I acted funny and weird she began to wonder. She said she had put two and two together because her brother liked to dress up like a girl and she knew how important it was not tell anyone. I never knew her brother dressed up like a girl and I sure was not going to tell anyone his secret. She told me that she was not going to tell anyone not even her brother that she knew my secret.
After that I began to tell her all my experiences switching back and forth from boy to girl growing up. It was such a relief to be able to talk about it to someone who understood at lease a little. Needless to say I was so relieved that someone else who knew my secret was not going to tell anyone. We dated for a several more years, we fell in love and were inseparable then I lost her when she was in a car accident and passed away. I was devastated when I lost her, we were engaged, getting married in less then a month at the time of her accident.
Sometimes without warning I felt changes coming on and my desires became more oriented and intense to being a guy and wanting to do guy things. I began to feel like I was a guy again. I noticed and felt the changes coming on and desires to do guy stuff. I no longer wanted to do girls stuff or even felt like a girl. I had no hate for my My Male Genitals or the compulsion to wear girl clothes or do girl things. In fact I hated the thought of being a girl. When the changes came they lasted for a long time. I had no desires to be a girl or wear girl clothes for years and it was a great relief not having to hide the fact I felt I was a girl. But the weirdest things would occur. I would see a beautiful girl wearing a beautiful dress or gown then I would get these awkward feelings of wanting to see what the dress would look like on me and get a intense feelings of being a girl. The feeling only lasted a short time, like a flash in my mind. Certain things caused flashes in my mind causing me to feel like a girl and the desire to do girl things but they only lasted a few minutes but it felt good. This would happen off and on all through the rest of my life.
I was in the Marines now at a ball with my new girl friend at her college home coming when the following happened. I was now about 22 or 23 years old. Was just promoted to a Sergeant in the Marine Corps. It had been maybe 3 or 4 years since I had had any feelings about having girl desires or felt like I was a girl that lasted more then a day or sometimes a week. I began to feel changes coming on I could not control and that would not go away. For days I had these weird feelings I could not shake and the feelings and desires became more and more intense of wanting to wear girl clothes, to do girl things until it came to the point I felt as if I was a girl. I had flash backs of how it was when I was younger and in school and working on the farm. The misery it caused trying to hide the fact I was a girl. Wanting to be a girl and be recognized as a girl and be called a girl. Be called she and her and just to be able to be myself and not hide from the world that I was a girl. I wanted to live my life as a girl, dress as a girl, have long hair again like a girl. All I wanted to do at that time was die ....... I did not want to face all that agony again ..... I had thought it was over. I had thought it was just a thing I had gone through. I became sick to my stomach because I did not want to face the life I knew was about to happen.
My girl friend took notice to how I was acting. She had asked me what was wrong and I told her nothing, that I was just afraid of going to Vietnam, that I would be alright. I was scheduled to be shipped out to Vietnam in a few days, now, with these feelings and desires now becoming as intense as they were when I was younger.
Back at the Barracks I felt I was losing my mind. Funny, because when I woke up the next morning I felt good, I felt like I was me again, a girl by all intense purposes. I hated my Male Genitals, I hated looking like a guy. I hated looking in a mirror and seeing a guy instead of girl, me. I was afraid of being discovered, afraid someone would notice I was more feminine now then I had been. I knew I had to hide it. I had to act like I was a guy, a Marine but in this case I was a female Marine in a Male Marines barracks. I had to learn how to control this or be found out and be drummed out of the Marine Corps or probably beaten to the point of almost death so I ignored the fact I felt like I was a girl. I had no choice in the matter. It was either ignore the fact or become the laughing stock of the barracks and I was not going to become that. There were red necks in my platoon who I knew would start something if they found out who I was or what I was. They were tough and big and loved to cause problems. I know, I was one of them and had to continue to be one of them. This is when I learn how to somewhat control not being feminine when I was, completely feminine.
How much I wanted to just be me, wear a pretty dress, go out with the girls and have some fun, just be me but that was not going to happen and I knew it. I felt like just taking my knife and cutting my wrist and ending the agony before it started, but I didn't. At times it was very hard to hide the fact I was a female in the disguise as a Male Marine. The pain I felt trying to be a guy and make everyone believe I was a guy was horrible, agonizing, but I survived. I became very good at hiding the fact I was female now. I became a actor, an actor that should have been awarded the golden globe of actors for a part in my actual life and not a movie.
All through Vietnam I had to hide the fact I was female, act like a guy, and it had to be a tough guy not a weakling and had to be brave. Be the toughest guy in the company or at least try. I never succeeded at that but did past as one of the tough guys in the company. I felt feminine all through Vietnam and for a long time when I got back in the states. I had been wounded several times and in the hospital in Philadelphia now waiting on a medical discharge under honorable conditions.
There is a lot I have not mentioned which took place in Vietnam but not needed to be told here is this short Transgender life's experience. I will tell of this short daring adventure when I was in the rear. When I was in the rear waiting to go to the Naval hospital in Japan I was waiting in huts that housed about 20 marines waiting for transportation. In those huts we had Vietnamese girls we used as maids. Some lived on the base behind our hut. One day I was by myself in the hut and out back I seen the girls clothes hanging on a line. Black satin pants and long Vietnamese silk and cotton over dresses Vietnamese girls wore with the pants. I had to take the chance, I just could not resist and took a pair of the slacks and a long over dress that I thought would fit me and tried them on in the hut. OH! ..... MY! ..... GOD! .... did that feel so good to be dressed like a girl again. So good in fact I was willing to get caught then thought about what would happen and decided against it. It was really difficult to take those clothes off but can still remember how great it felt to be able to be a girl just for a few minutes back then. A few days later I was shipped out to Yokohama Japan to the US Naval Hospital there for medical evaluation before being shipped to the states to the Philadelphia Naval Hospital for medical treatment
While in Philadelphia, Pa in the Naval Hospital after having surgery and other medical treatments and waiting for my discharge I was assigned duty as a Marine Military Police Officer. Got to know a lot about the theater district back then on my Patrols and when off duty myself and a few friends joined a theater troupe and became back up dancers for a few shows. I was still hiding the fact I was female. At least there in the theater I could be myself in dance. I had became very good at dancing and with the help of dancing it relieved a lot of stress from hiding the fact I was a girl. I learnt how to be a guy extremely well even though I was a girl. It was easier now since my life had depended on it while in the service and in the Vietnam war. If I would have been discovered in the service and in the war zone where other lives depended on my actions I probably would have been killed by friendly fire so I had no choice but to be a guy and prove it at all times no matter what it took.
It was about 10 days before my discharge was to become official and I started having all these weird feelings. It was like before when I felt the changes coming on from switching from male to female but this time it was a little different. My head hurt along with the feeling I was tired and run down. I had feelings I was losing something but did not know what it was I was losing. For the next few days I had flashes of my childhood back in school and on the farm, dreams of being a girl on the farm remembering the hurt and pain from hiding who I was from my step father and my mother. I had dreams of being a girl and then flashing back to being a boy. This went on for a few days. I felt my feminine self slipping away, it felt weird like I was losing my best friend. I could not control the feelings or the dreams. Then waking up one morning after I do not remember how many days feeling sick to my stomach I felt like I was more a male then a female but still had feelings of being a female. It felt like I was stuck in the middle of being a guy and a girl. Feelings and desires would keep switching back and forth from guy to girl and back to guy and than back to girl, it became intensely confusing and frustrating. This was a feeling I had never felt before and it sort of scared the shit out of me. I had no idea what was taking place. One minute I felt like a girl and the next minute I felt like a guy. It was driving me crazy. I had gone to the doctors at the naval hospital because I though I had caught something because I felt so sick at my stomach again. He checked me out and told me that I was experiencing the after affects of the Vietnam War. He sent me to the Naval Hospital Psychologist where I was told I was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. That is not what he called it back then but it was the same thing, just a different name for the disorder. I cannot remember what it was the Doctor called it back then but anyway the Doctor gave me some pills and the following day I was discharged from the Marine Corps. I did not tell the Psychologist I felt like I was a girl one minute and a boy the next minute. I know if I would have done that I would not have been discharged that next day and I wanted to go home. Funny thing happened the day I was discharged, I felt like I was a guy for all intense purposes. Had no feelings of being stuck in the middle of being a guy and a girl.
Trying to remember what the Doctor called it back then began to really annoy me so I looked it up on the internet. Here is the link if anyone is intersted ... http://www.vva.org/archive/TheVeteran/2005_03/feature_HistoryPTSD.htm
For years after ... my genders switch back and forth, back and forth, sometimes lasting for hours, days and sometimes lasting for a couple years. Sometimes having both genders surface at the same time. Spending life trying to hide the fact you are a girl from friends, family and society is so horrifying, so depressing and you become so scared of being discovered you just feel like giving up, you feel like crawling into a hole and dying. Then all of a sudden one day or a couple days later you do not have to hide that fact any longer. You just go about life being yourself in society because your gender switched back to being a guy, being that gender that everyone has known you as since birth, but not knowing how long that will last is also scary and depressing. Sometimes the not knowing what gender you will be the next day or which gender you will wake up as can be debilitating in itself. You have no idea what it is like not knowing from one day to the next how your going to be feeling or if your going to have to hide the fact you are a girl and for all intense purposes a Transsexual Male to Female. Of course if your Transgender you already know exactly what it is like trying to hide the fact who you really are within your brain. You have suffered all that agony and pain in your life. I wish I was just a plain Male to Female Transsexual and not have to worry about if I am going to change my genders from one day to the next. Like most of us I had to learn to deal with the fact of who I was, who I am from day to day. But in my case it is just a little different. I cannot transition when my gender is female because of the fact my brain switches back to a male. If I transitioned and my male gender surfaced it is no telling what I would do. I could not begin to tell you and I do not want to find out. Probably go off the deep end. At least a Transsexual can transition and be safe and live a full life as their preferred gender but then they still have the other issues to deal with we all know about. After all these years I have learnt to accept my genitals for what they are when my gender switches to female. I have learnt to accept myself as female one day and male the next. I had to or else go crazy from the confusion and frustration. It still is not easy and it does get depressing when I cannot be myself as female when my gender switches so I just do the best I can at the time always looking forward to the time I can just be me in which ever gender I am at the time.
I can only wonder what other Bi Gender individuals have had to go through in their lives. I hope their lives were not as intense as mine was or is even today. I am now 70 years old and still have gender switches. Now after all these years I have learn how to somewhat deal with myself and hide the fact I am female when my gender switches to female when I have to. It is hard, agonizing and painful to hide the fact of who you really are in your brain. I cannot remember a time when I was not fighting gender changes. Sometimes you can feel the changes coming on and at other times it happens so fast you are just a girl or a boy at that instance.
For years I thought I was Transsexual, everything lead to that. MY feeling, my needs,my desires, my wanting to have SRS ... then one day out of the blue I lost all interest of being a female and that is when I thought there was something different going on with me. I researched and researched and then came across the Bi Gender study and I fit right into that catagory without any question. Believe me I would have rather stayed diagnosed as Transsexual. Life would have been so much easier ... At least I think it would have....
I Envy Transsexuals.
Michelle Lynn GreyFeather (Female Gender)
Michael GreyFeather (Male Birth Gender)
I am Bi Gender
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In the story above I described a little of what it was like for me growing up Bi-Gender with actual events in my life. It can be very confusing and very frustrating to say the least. But what is it, what is Bi Gender ............. Being Bi Gender means you are born with both Male and Female genders within your Brain and person. Your Gender's then switch back and forth from male to female and back again and back to female constantly without any control, it just happens. One day or one minute you are a male, the gender you were born as on the out side ... and then out of the blue your gender switches to being female, and I mean Transsexual girl, a Trans girl or woman ... or vice versa ..... Sometimes you can feel the changes coming on and can somewhat prepare for the switch but at other times and this is most of the time the switch just happens. It can be at that exact instant or you feel certain changes in your person and you begin to feel more like the opposite gender. When your genders switch you still remember everything, you still have all your emotions, your senses, your thoughts, your memories, your feelings etc., the only difference is you feel like you are a genetic female or a genetic male. That is the only way to explain it .... I know, I have lived with it for the last 70 years. However not all people who are Bi Gender have the same experiences. Just like Transsexual's, Crossdresser and others who are Transgender can experience different levels of their same Transgender categories. No one who is Transgender developes exactly the same. For example one Transsexual individual absolutely cannot stand living with their birth genitals and will have their genitals surgically reconstructed to match their brain gender where as another Transsexual can live their life with their birth genitals and not need to have genital reconstruction surgery.
Below you will find some links to some explanation but be aware this is a subject not yet studied in detail and not much is known about it. Some studies have been introduced by 2 Professionals ... A new study by Vilayanur S Ramachandran and Laura Case. The links below take you to a few of their thoughts ... They have labeled Bi-Gender as Alternating Gender Incongruity (AGI) .....
About 1999 Bi Gender was added as a sub catagory of the Transgender umbrella ...
From my studies and research all I have found so far are the studies and such research and thoughts by Vilayanur S Ramachandran and Laura Case.
I have found that Male and Female patterns come from different parts of the brain. Like two different hemispheres of thought one hemisphere for male and one hemisphere for female ...
I have also found that when the fetus goes through the cycles determining genders the brain and the body do not go through the same cycles at the same time. The developement for the body to determine if the body will develope as a male or female goes through one cycle and later on in time the brain goes through a different cycle that will develope the brain either as male or female. This is one resaon why we can be born as the body of one gender and the brain of the other gender or genders ... but it is much more complicated then that. There's the Chromosone wash, Testosterone and Estrogen which help decides genders and much more in deciding which gender the fetus is born as, at lease on the outside.
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WiKi Pedia on Bi-Gender
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Here is the link to the below subject matter ... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22364652
Med Hypotheses. 2012 May;78(5):626-31. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.01.041. Epub 2012 Feb 22.
Alternating gender incongruity: a new neuropsychiatric syndrome providing insight into the dynamic plasticity of brain-sex.
Case LK1, Ramachandran VS.
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Between the two extreme ends of human sexuality - male and female - lie a poorly understood and poorly studied spectrum of ambiguously defined sexual identities that are very much a part of the human condition but defy rigid classification. "Bigender" is a recently formed sub-category of transgenderism, describing individuals who experience a blending or alternation of gender states. While recognized nominally by the APA, no scientific work to our knowledge has addressed this fascinating condition, or proposed any physiological basis for it. In addition, the alternation aspect has not been proposed as a nosological entity distinct from blending. We present descriptive data suggesting that many bigender individuals experience an involuntary switching of gender states without any amnesia for either state. In addition, similar to transsexual individuals, the majority of bigender individuals experience phantom breasts or genitalia corresponding to the non-biologic gender when they are in a trans-gender state. Finally, our survey found decreased lateralization of handedness in the bigender community. These observations suggest a biologic basis of bigenderism and lead us to propose a novel gender condition, "alternating gender incongruity" (AGI). We hypothesize that AGI may be related to an unusual degree or depth of hemispheric switching and corresponding callosal suppression of sex appropriate body maps in parietal cortex- possibly the superior parietal lobule- and its reciprocal connections with the insula and hypothalamus. This is based on two lines of reasoning. First, bigender individuals in our survey sample reported an elevated rate of bipolar disorder, which has been linked to slowed hemispheric switching. We hypothesize that tracking the nasal cycle, rate of binocular rivalry, and other markers of hemispheric switching will reveal a physiological basis for AGI individuals' subjective reports of gender switches. Switching may also trigger hormonal cascades, which we are currently exploring. Second, we base our hypotheses on ancient and modern associations between the left and right hemispheres and the male and female genders. By providing a case of sharp brain-sex shifts within individuals, we believe that the study of AGI could prove illuminating to scientific understanding of gender, body representation, and the nature of self.
Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PMID: 22364652 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Below are a few other links if your interested in finding out a little more ...
Medical Hypotheses – Alternating gender incongruity: A new neuropsychiatric syndrome providing insight into the dynamic plasticity of brain-sex.
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