How to pronounce “gonad” in English

This is how we do it.And I agreed to a gonadectomy, and now I wish I hadn't because it's sort of wreaked havoc on my hormones.Also-- whatever. It's a long, long story that I don't need to get into right now.

Folks with Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, or PAIS, tend to have more mixed sex traits than those who are completely androgen insensitive."I have PAIS. I was told that I had gonads sunk deep in my lower abdomen that would need to be removed because theywere, quite evidently, useless on account of their indecision.

The stated reason was that there was a high risk of them becoming cancerous, which is a risk difficult to argue with when you're a kid."But also, it's important to note that whatever gonads you have right they might become cancerous.So this is, like, my initiation into the medical double speak used in the context of intersex treatment.

it was in the context-- so I was old enough to consent, technically, to any procedure.And I consented, whatever that might mean, to a gonadectomy because I was told this will make your body less masculine.Because you've been assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, that's probably what you want, right?

She's pretty wonderful. But our first visit together, I said, hey, I have this condition.You said something like, I don't care what kind of gonads you have, it grabs you by them.

So you are also hard-wired to have a double standard.Tiny, little, fast-moving body, huge, enormous gonads-- very promiscuous.