CAIS Transmen

Transmen with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome

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Hey people, how is it going?  Last autumn I partecipated at TDoR (Transgender day of remembrance) in Milan, Italy (where I live). It was very touching. Was raining and people aggregated naming almost every trans person who died in 2019.

-J

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Discord

Hey. This is my second post! I’ll try to keep this blog updated a little bit, hoping I can reach someone :) Anyway, just wanna thank all the people who liked, reblogged, and comment my initial post. I was very glad to see that much support, couldn’t imagined it. I made a discord channel, if you want to partecipate (any of you), this is the link:

https://discord.gg/RAGHzjy

For now, it’s just me, heh. 

-J

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@emilylazor to your post “transmen w/ complete androgen insensitivity - presentation”

Hi! That's so cool to hear! I have PAIS and was raised male and identify as a transwoman; but I hadn't heard of someone with CAIS having a male identity before

Hi! Sorry if I took all this time to reply. Anyway, thanks for the support ;) Your reply cheered me up so much! I’m glad to find a person with a situation a bit like mine. We’re doing it alright u_u <3 

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@sugar-pills-cant-kill  replied to your post “transmen w/ complete androgen insensitivity - presentation”

I learned something new today! <3 thanks for sharing

Hey, sorry if I took so much time to reply. Anyway thanks for the support, I’m glad you took your time to read my post!

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transmen w/ complete androgen insensitivity - presentation

Hi! If you are reading this, I’m a person with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome that has a male gender identity. Therefore, I identify as a guy! And currently I’m figuring out my own ftm transition. 

CAIS is a condition in which as the name says, there is a total or almost total insensitivity to androgen because the Androgen Receptor doesn’t work (there is a mutation). So, a CAIS person is born with XY chromosomes but since lacks of androgens, the fetus cannot masculinize properly. So, organs like uterus, fallopian tubes etc. don’t develope and the body can’t menstruate but reproduces a female apparatus. Testicles are under skin and since can’t develop properly, testosterone (from testicles) aromatise in estrogen.

The majority of people with CAIS identify as women. Still, since I did some research, I found out that there are persons with CAIS like me that identify as men.

I decided to create this blog to spread awareness about us and maybe, to gather people like me!

It is not easy to feel this way because, of course, there is no cure for this condition right now, so, no possibility to have the proper effects of Testosterone.

Anyhow, if someone like me is reading this: you are valid, there are people like us, and we can do something about this :D

Anyway, sorry for my english.

And thank to everybody who read this.

If you want to know more, this guy did an amazing job reporting about this: 

https://americantransman.com/2010/07/11/what-makes-gender-part-2-of-male-gender-identity-in-an-individual-with-complete-androgen-insensitivity/

<3

ps. 

profile image flag from here: http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Trans-Intersex