That feel when at the end of the end of episode 13 of season 2 of house MD they reveal that Alex the super model is actually male with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS)
Makes me wonder why we haven't found out a way to just medically induce this in trans people.
How does it make you feel?
The episode made me feel super dysphoric. Here is another (albeit fictional) person who is male yet gets the perfect free ride, and transition from age 0 :/
Fuck why can't we all just be cis.
From the wiki
http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Skin_Deep
The patient has complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS). The disorder prevented the genetically "male" Alex from being able to process testosterone. Since the patient could only process estrogen, the patient developed female characteristics, such as large breasts. This revelation disturbs Alex, who is unable to believe that she is, actually, a hermaphrodite, prompting a psychiatric referral from House, who remarks upon the irony that the ultimate woman is a "man". The surgery is a success.
I think for trans people its too late. Alex's testes never lowered b/c AIS but with a trans person they already have way before they even find out they are trans. The effects aren't reversible
Imagine having complete AIS and being FTM though. I'd an hero.
>>6432494
:( So sad. Fuck. I don't know why this who thing makes me so dysphoric.
About 5 years ago I went in to get X-Rays/MRI done after crushing 3 vertebra in my lower spine (Trying to figure that out was why I was there)
When they were done I could see to the other side of the glass they looked surprised, and brought some younger doctors to take a look at everything and some colleges before letting me see some of them.
The whole time in my head I was imagining they found something like ovaries inside me on the xray or something. Hoping that it would validate me as a woman. I am MTF.
I was crushed when they didn't say anything. I didn't know that doctors don't often tell people when they are intersex/AIS etc.
Sadly I don't think I am because I was still visibly male prior to HRT, but yeah....
Damn.
>>6432510
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck i never thought of how fucked that would be
>>6432510
How? To defeminize & masculinize the brain, the AR receptors need to work.
>>6433347
How? Last I checked estrogen masculinized the brain.
As an explanation to those who don't know: testosterone is converted to estrogen locally at the brain to masculinize it. The reason bio girls don't all end up FtM is because alphafetoprotein is supposed to bind to all the free estrogen floating around the baby, so only bio males are supposed to be exposed to estrogen during pregnancy. Because it's not androgens themselves that masculinize the brain, it's possible to have CAIS and be FtM.
