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    About Me
     
    Dr. W.K. (at USC-LAC) tells me in November of 1977 that I
    am 70% female and 30% male Physically, Physiologically
    and Psychologically and he would commit suicide if he had
    this condtion, to save his family from embarassment.

    Some family members also suggested I do the same. Other family members suggested that they should do it to me.
     
    I suggested to them they they were not the CHRISTIANS they claimed to be. Since 1978 I have not seen any family members with the exception of my Mom, my brothers and a couple of cousins. Everyone else pefers not to know me.
     
    GOD will sort this all out in time or in heaven, whichever comes first..

    Instead I asked GOD that if it was HIS will then to send the
    Holy Spirit before me and BULLDOZE a pathway for me to
    get medical treatment for it., because I preferred to be only
           ONE gender and the one it was easiest to become.

           I tried male hormones in 1971 and I feminized on them,
           actually they kick started my 2nd puberty...into a feminine
           phenotype. I piled on the pounds where women gain during
           puberty.

           The half life of the Testo was being reduced from injection to
           injection and being spilled out of my body. That means the
           GLOMULAR CAPSULES inside the kidneys spilled the
           testosterone molecules and they were not re-uptaked,
           instead estrogen was being produced by my liver and it was
           re-uptaked by the kidneys, while the testo was spilled..
           (Yup I sure did a lot of reading to learn this.)

           In 1982 I spoke with Dr. Willard Goodwin (UCLA ret.) who
           told me then "even if you had kidney and liver transplants,
           how are you going to make the cells respond? GOD
           designed you this way for a specific reason." Which means
           that even the majority of the cells of my body did not
           respond to testosterone treatment. This is known as
           PARTIAL A.I.S.
           (androgen insensitivity syndrome)

     
    Stress Anyone?

    1977
    1973

     
     

    By this time, I have seen the XRAYS (1973) taken dyring a retrograde pyelogram, that show that I have both male (30%) and female (70%) organs.

    Well now I know why I consider myself both makle and female, because my body is.

     
    I was 10 years of age. before I went to any type of bible study classes. Dreaming History. Having Vivid Dreams is like videotaping it as it happens. (I can still remember them, as though it were yesterday)

    From about ages 8-13 (five years total) I had a reoccurring dream which changed slightly each night. One main thing I learned from the dream. TRUST GOD ALWAYS, because HE was in the dream. He revealed HIS PRESENCE OF SELF to my mind at age eight, TWO YEARS before I went to any kind of bible class.
    .
    In the dream, the devil [ aka Satan ] was attacking me. I saw GOD in my mind (in the dream) and HE told me that if I would ask HIM for HIS strength, then HE would strengthen me and (together HE and) I would defeat the enemy.

    [Satan -The Devil] The dreams changed slightly over the years, but each time I asked for God's strength and (together HE and) I would physically beat up the devil.In the last dream, the devil told me he had me where he wanted me, then God appeared and carried me away to safety, slamming the 'door in the devils face'.

    There were other instances which were not dreams. If I wrote them down here, you would not believe me. I would hardly believe me, but they happened.

    In some of my most painful 'trials' after surgery and after the demerol or morphine no longer worked and remembering what HE told me in my dreams could I trust in GOD to sing praises to Him.After a period of time (20-40 minutes it would seem) would I hear a voice whisper to me that 'HE would not let me suffer more than I could endure'. I then passed out and went to sleep. When I awoke, I had no more physical pain and required no more pain killers.

    If I learned one thing, it is to, TRUST GOD ALWAYS!

    So how come us humans have such a short term memory on The Blessings of GODand such a long term memory on the bad things that happen to us?

     
    My Computer History

            It was 1983 and I was playing video games with a friend.
            That was the heyday of the Atari 2600 game machine. A
            year later I bought my first computer, a Commodore 64.
             I bought the computer, because I had volunteered for
            every position the church I was going to and was told ''dont call us, we will call you'' They never did. SO after 9 month, it was computers.

    At first I had a tape drive. Anyone who has had a tape drive knows how slow they are in comparison to a floppy disk drive. Within a few months I bought my first 1541 floppy disk drive. The 1541 floppy drive was a single sided floppy drive. It could only format the diskette to a mere 170 KB.

    By Christmas of 1985 the C128 was available with the 1571 disk drive which had a formatted capacity of 340 KB. A year later the 1581 came out. It used the 3.5'' micro floppy and it had a formatted disk capacity of 880 KB, which was considered a lot in those days.
           .
    By 1987 I bought my first 8088 with two floppy drives and a 20 meg HDD with an RLL controller. The 20 meg drive was formatted to 32 megs. There were a lot of controller cards available then so you could take a 20 meg drive and "push it" as high as 45megs formatted capacity. I bought my first modem in April 1986. It was a 300 baud modem. I went "online crazy" and dialed into 83 computer systems in one day in southern california. My aim was to get a large a list of other bbses as possible. There were about 10,000 BBSES in southern california in those days. My friends and I were on the top 1,000 BBSES in those days.
            .
    By the Christmas of 1986 I upgraded my modem to a 1200 baud modem and sold off the 300 baud modem. I also subscribed to Compuserve, which was not cheap in those days. They charged by the BAUD RATE of your modem. 1 hour of time at 300 baud was equal to 30 minutes of 1200 baud and 15 minutes of 2400 baud.

    I dropped compuserve two years later when I got my 2400 baud modem.
    The 2400 baud modem was my mainstay from 1988 until 1994 when I upgraded to a USR Sportster 14.4k Fax/Modem which came with a subscription to AOL and access to the internet. AOL's rates were $9.95 per month with 5 free hours of access.

    After that them hour's cost you $2.95 per hour. I was "surfing the net" about 23 hours a month, of which 18 of them hours cost me $2.95 per hour. While online I learned of other Internet Provider Services. So in March 1995 I went with NETCOM Communications.

    I figured it had the best deal for me with NO TIME LIMIT for $19.50 per month. By the time June had rolled around I had subscribed to The Arlington courseware course. I got weekly emails with lessons to navigate the internet for an initial cost of $20.00 - a very good deal for the "newbie".

    The first three weeks online I downloaded a course from The Long Beach IBM Users Group BBS at 562-420-1000. It had information on LYNX, GOPHER, EMAIL, FTP, ARCHIE, VERONICA, JUGHEAD and so forth. It had about 40,000 words, which I read in one week. Within three
    weeks I was surfing the net.
    At first I visited FTP sites, then GOPHERsites, then I went out onto the WWW with LYNX in May of 1995- when there were fewer than 800,000 sites on the WWW.

    One of theTeachers at Cerritos College asked me to do some research for her.Using Gopher-Email, and Email, I emailed her over 75 megabytes of textfiles from the internet. One of the Sysops at Cerritos College had told her that she had unlimited storage.

    After 75 megabytes were uploaded he started asking who and the heck I was that I was emailing her an average of 5 megabytes a day on topics from Anthropology to Zoology,from Anon FTP to LISTSERV's..

    I started with Scott Yanoff's list of web sites on the internet The first three months I was online thru NETCOM I averaged 10 hours per day every day of the week. Within 3 month's I was still surfing the internet
    around 8 hours per day in 4 hour shifts. One time using FTP mode I went to ftp.microsoft.comand downloaded 40 megabytes of software of Visual Basic and MS Access help files. 15,000+ Files available for download from microsoft.

    Update 5-18-99:
    After 4.5 years online, sign with Snowcrest, get a Domain Name. Now have my DNS hosted at SNOWCREST, for a total online storage capacity of 100 megs and OVER 400 pages..
    Update 2000:
      Get DSL connection with Snowcrest.
      Download speed 220 KB to 2 MG.
      Upload speed 220 KB to 490 KB
     
    Genetics

             We are, according to JEREMIAH 1:5 designed
            by GOD. "HE knows us before we were formed in our
            mothers womb."Therefore HE knows what amount of
            DNA that is required to construct each one of us.When
            HE wants to make a male he uses 23 pairs of
            chromosomes, ofwhich the 23rd pair has an X
            chromatin and a Y chromatin. 46,XY
             When HE wants to make a female he uses 23
            pairs of chromosomes, ofwhich the 23rd pair has two
            X chromatin's. 46,XXThere are 23 pairs of
            chromosomes for a total of 46 chromosomes to
            construct a human baby. The mothers egg has 23
            chomosomes and the fathers sperm has 23
            chromosomes, usually.
             Sometimes HE makes variations on male and
            female by constructing people with both male and
            female reproductive organs. In somecases you get
            Intersexed [Hermaphrodite] who have XX but are male
            or female and other times you get XY but who are
            female or male.
             Sometimes you get Mosaic's [47,XXY/46,XY, or
            47,XXY/46,XX or 47,XXX/46,XX] or any other
            combination. Sometimes the Mosaic is male,
            sometimes female and sometimes a Mosaic may have
            qualities of both male and female. A person with XXY
            or XXX has 47 chromosomes instead of 46
            chromosomes. They have 3 chromosomes on the 23rd
            pair of chromosomes instead of 2 chromsomes. Thus
            the designation is 47,XXY or 47,XXX.

    You can learn more of this by visiting http://www.klinefeltersyndrome.org/

    If you wish to know more about this, then ask Professor Almon who is a Molecular Biologist at SUNY, Buffalo,NY.

    My "Saved" History

            It was the spring of 1963 when I began to wonder for
            what purpose God put people here on earth. I felt that
            robots could do all that were were doing, us humans,
            here on earth, but they would just be machines and
            could not know God.

             I wondered "How could I know God?"
             Could anyone know God. I read in the Holy Bible,
            in Genesis, about Abraham who wasa friend of God,
            Jacob who wrestled the Angel of the Lord and in
            Exodus, Moses who spoke with God. How could a
            mere human being havea relationship with God, I
            wondered...
             In April 1963 on a wednesday evening, about 20
            minutes afterthe preacher started preaching, I got up
            from my seat in the pews and ran down the aisle to the
            altar and knelt and asked God to forgive me of my
            wrong doings [sin]. I prayerfully asked HIM for
            salvation thru HIS Son, JESUS.
             It was the spring of 1967 when I heard of the
            Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The evangelist read in the
            Acts of The Apostles about the disciples praying in the
            upper room to await the Holy Spirit.Some people
            believe that when you ask Jesus into your life,
            repentingof your sins that you are 'filled with the Holy
            Spirit'. I will not dispute their beliefs, but I do know for
            myself that being 'baptized by the Holy Spirit' is
            probably different that being filled with the Holy Spirit
            when first saved, as mentioned in The Acts of The
            Apostles, Chapter(s)1:5, 2:1-4, 2:17-18.

            For me being baptized by the Holy Spirit was akin to
            standingin a waterfall like Niagara Falls, like being filled
            with electricity and like as though I was plugged into GOD.
            I knew my feet were on thefloor of the church I was
            standing in, yet in my mind I felt like from knee's upwards I
            was standing before the Throne of God and He wasless
            than 100 feet away and I was praising Him.

             I felt in my mind that HE told me that the brain
             damage I was born with that I was healed of it and
             that I no lnger needed to take the medication. My
             parents and the doctor were not happy that I quit
             taking the medicine whichI told them about two weeks
             after being healed. Much later an EEC showed that
             indeed the left temporal lobe damage was no longer
             there. The doctors had no explanation for it.
             Seven years after I asked God for salvation thru HIS
             Son Jesus Christ [The Messiah] I began to enter one
             of the most unusual trials you could ever imagine. This
             was in November of 1970.See next chapter.

    In November of 1970 I entered St. Francis Hospital of
             Lynwoodin Lynwood, Southern California. The doctor
             was pretty sure I hadRhuematoid Arthritis, but he
             wanted to be sure. He told me he wanted todo a few
             days of tests on me. THREE weeks later I was
             dischanrgedand I had an "acute case of rhuematoid
             arthritis". The SED Rate was 65.I was prescribed 20
             mg daily of Prednisone, 150 MG of Indocin T.I.D.
             anda couple of drops of Bella Donna allegdely to
             protect my stomach fromthe medications I was taking.

            Cortisone can feminize you. Usually when that happens you
            are withdrawn from the cortisone (to stop the feminization
            process)or are given Testosterone to countact the
            feminization process to reverse it and maculinize your body.
            Unfortunatly the doctor did not know my body was
            intersexed. Then again, neither did I.
            The testosterone injections 400 MG injected once every
            TWO weeks proved, via lab tests, that my body was
            dumping the testosteroneand that the testosterone's "HALF
            LIFE" was being reduced by 50% fromone injection to the
            next injection. That somehow I was feminizing on male
            hormones. "OOP"s!" What a surprise.
            So at age 26 I began my second puberty, feminizing in all
            thesecondary places girls feminize when puberty starts.
            How humbling thisshould have been for me a man, but then
            again seeing as I was not surewhich gender I was: part of
            me was happy about it. Another part of me decided that I
            should hide it from everyone, especially my family.As
            ignorant as I was about it; so was my family doctor.
            One and a half years later I was hospitalized as the R.A.
            [rhuematoid arthritis] had burnt out my right knee to the
            point I had to have surgery just so as to keep the ability to
            walk. Dr. Wm Wilsonwas the Orthopedist. He removed the
            knee cap along with tumors and cysts from within my right
            knee. It hurt!

            Six months later I had surgery on my left wrist to
            alleviatethe pain and inflammation from the R.A. It had
            eaten up part ofone of my wrist bones.
             Six months later in June of 1973 I had bleeding from
             mykidneys. So I was referred to a Urologist, a DR.
             Williams. He madethe preliminary diagnosis of
             Klinefelters Syndrome. He said I had to have a test
             known as a cystoscopic exam to xray the kidneys and
             seewhat was going on with them.
             I had kidney stones alright. The xrays also showed up
             a few things I had no idea I did have, like female
             organs. Ha ha. God has a sense of humor. I suppose I
             could have cried about it and felt sorry formyself, but
             part of me had always wanted to be a female instead
             ofa male. I knew though that I would have to keep
             quiet about it. I knew this because while I was still in
             the hospital a nurse came to meand she told me how
             DR. Willaims had repaired her vagina. Now whywould
             a nurse tell me about her personal female problems?
             When I mentioned that to DR. Williams he had me
             moved from a ward offour beds to a private room.
             Since then the drs. have tried to keep mein private
             rooms. Sometimes a private room is nice, sometimes
             not so nice.
             A year later I had surgery on my right wrist and the
             Superintendent from work called to let me know that I
             should look foranother job, because if the company
             took me back their BLUE CROSS insurance rates
             would skyrocket an addtional $10,000 per month.So I
             began looking for work else where with a cast still on
             my right arm.
             A few years later the R.A. caught up to me at work as
             the boss saw me limping while I walked. My knee was
             so swollen that my workpants were tight around me
             leg at the knee. He came over to where I was an told
             me that no job was worth killing myself over and that I
             should go off on disability. I went to see my
             Orthopedist. He took one look at my knee and said I
             needed to have a total right knee replacement.Due to
             under-insurance from work I would have had to pay
             $700.00 "upfront" to the doctor to have the knee
             surgery. I declined the surgery. The doctor said I had
             no choice but to go onto disability.

    I had major surgery. The odds on surviving the
            operation were50-50 for it, but they were 100%
            against me if I had no surgery. Perotinitis is not very
            forgiving.

             Since that day in Jan 1977, I have had over 20
            more surgeries on various joints and internal organs. I
            have since had two total jointreplacements, had a
            broken leg bolted back together from the inside, and
            had both the male and female organs removed.
             Hermaphrodites tend to get cancer of the
            reproductive organs. So you have a choice, lose them
            and live or keep them and die. When some of them
            were removed a few years ago, the doctor told me that
            he found cysts and tumors [benign] mixed in with the
            organs and that I had developedperotinitis. The doctor
            told me that he removed 50% of my large colon and all
            of my female organs, to save my life.
             Within two years some of my female organs grew
            back and I am not so sure who was more surprised,
            my Ob/Gyn or me. None of the male organs grew
            back.
             [Thank God, best to be only 1 gender.]

    Within the past 4 years, much has happened. My close friend, Jan Tanner died from Cancer. She said her right side below her shoulder, above the bottom rib, had hurt for a a few months. When she went into the drs. office, tests revealed a large tumor, below her right lung penetrating the diaphragm and sitting on top of the Adrenal gland of the right kidney.... The doctors told her that the tumor could not be removed and so used chemotherapy.....which she said she could not stand the side affects of....She died Jan 21st 1997.

    Why did I not pray for her to be healed of the cancer? Because each time I tried to do so, I felt that GOD was telling me to pray for her to have spiritual strength and that is exactly what I did......and that is what she received.

    I think the biggest hurt came when my friend Ron Kagan died. So far as I know he was not saved. He was the first person I ever cried [mourned] over who died. I had spoken with ron on the phone about 3 weeks befire he died and tried speaking to hm about savaltion, but he said he was a "Capitalist".

    After that I felt that God was distancing me from ron, but I didn't know why. The tuesday before the Saturday that ron died on, I sent ron an email on the dead sea scrolls, concerning that portion that mentioned the Messiah.
    I had back to back dreams, one in the evening and the next morning of the day I saw on the morning news that he had been killed in a motorcycle accident. The dreams consisted of ''a circle of light, with the light comming down from above, me standing in them middle of the circle, seeing Ron standing at the edge of the circle, in darkness.The look on his face was one of amazment, as though his thoughts were 'Oh my god! It is true, JESUS REALLY IS THE SAVIOUR'

    The thoughts that ran through my mind were, ''we lost one''. Once you hve repented of your sins and have asked Jesus to come into your life, HE resides in you, thus the term 'we'.

    Acts Chapter 1:5
           For John truly baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

    Acts Chapter 2:1-4
      And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (speech)

    Acts Chapter 2:17-18
    And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, I will pour out
    my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall
    prophesy, and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and my handmaidens I
    will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

    p.s.-addendum.
    The Pastor at the church I went to in Long Beach, also worked with
    the Long Beach Police Dept. as a Police Chaplain. He told me he saw
    all kinds of people with intersexed conditions and that they were not
    christians and that they tended towards hating christians. I told him
    that I thought I understood why, because people who CLAIM to be christians tend to discriminate against that which they do not understand, FORGETTING WHAT JESUS forgave them of.

    1) You get it from your parents-mainly the male parent. Beating you up as you grow up because you do not behave in either the masculine behavior of a male or in the female behavior pattern of a female. So you may ''yoyo'' back and forth.

    2) You get it from the medical professionals when they learn of it, and they will. Then the medical profesisonals tromp on you emotionally, blaming you for it.

    3) You get it from ignorant people, even Pastors.. I told my Pastor by accident, but that Pastor tunred out to be serving GOD, not serving his flesh.

    Fleshly responding christian people ''lump'' intersexed / hermaphrodites into the homosexual catagory, most liklely       due to ignorance.

    4) You get it from people, because they think that if your body is intersexed, then so is your sexuality, thus you have to be homosexual,
    because their minds cannot conceive of a person with both male and female organs as being heterosexual.

    Such ignorance still abounds even in the medical profession. Some think it is funny. Some think they have discovered it and so then then proceed, like the little kids they still are: to tell all their peers and try to ''document'' you.

    If you meet a doctor like that, leave.......asap or get a very good lawyer...

    5) You tend to get cynical over the years. I did.

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