Digital Transgender Archive

Interview with Ashley Meyers

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Ashley Meyers identifies as an intersex woman, and she was assigned female at birth. She was diagnosed with non-verbal learning disorder and tends to be a slower reader. She hasn’t dealt with bullying in school, but she did have trouble making friends. She became more aware of her intersex condition at the age of 11 or 12 when her doctor noticed she wasn’t growing. She was sent to a specialist in endocrinology where she found out she had Turner’s Syndrome, a condition where you are born with a partial, smaller X chromosome. The doctors also found that she wasn’t starting puberty, so they started her on daily growth hormone injections for 3 years. She later read the book, Intersex: the Dubious Diagnosis and went to the Intersex Organization of North America online where she read a lot of research on intersex conditions. She’s unable to have children, is on estrogen therapy, and now takes birth control to manage her intersex condition. Her grandmother identifies as a transgender woman who Meyers was able to talk to growing up about estrogen therapy.

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