Kristiana Hammock:  

Life Imagine growing up wondering why you always feel so different from everyone else around you but not knowing why. And then one day being told by a Doctor that a major secret has been hidden from you for many years. A secret so profound that suddenly your whole life makes sense. A secret that will inevitably change how you live the rest of your life, in very basic and fundamental ways. What!!, I was meant to be a girl ? It all suddenly became so clear... When I was born Doctors made the discovery that I was born with both (Intersexed or Hermaphrodite) and proceeded to try to play god with me and make a decision which gender I was to be (probably just flipped a coin). They made the decision to try to make Me male (beyond that I do not know what all else was done to me as there are officially no records). Though at the time things like this were quietly swept under the carpet whenever possible. They even managed to hide this from my parents. I was kept in the hospital while sutures healed as being premature. Growing up I always felt and acted very feminine and everyone around me saw this in me and often commented that I was a sissy or gay. At age 21 I had gone to the Doctor to try and figure out two medical issues I had dealt with my whole life. A severe sleeping disorder and urinary incontinence both of which ended up being related to how I was born. It was then the Doctor told me I needed to begin estrogen replacement therapy as soon as I possibly could as my body needed it. But that I needed to take some time to let it all sink in and prepare for the life changing...Expand for more