Living With XXY 2021 Annual Report
Dear Community, This year was the first year building an annual report; it was extremely challenging and frustrating. We all experience hardships and mountains we think are impossible to climb. Despite the difficulties, I pushed on a belief that I could create what I had envisioned in my mind. It took roughly two months to […]
The Voice of Richard Martinez
The Voice of Richard Martinez “All that negative stuff about Klinefelter went out the door. It didn’t matter how we got there, I was going to be a father!” Richard Martinez wanted a family. From the time his first niece was born, he hoped for a little girl of his own. After building a successful […]
The Voice of Ben Henrickson
Ben Henrickson is 22 and resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Diagnosis: Ben was in fifth grade when he noticed signs of gynecomastia, or enlarged breast tissue. He told his father, who dismissed Ben’s concerns saying “It’s just puberty.” Ben kept it hidden until eighth grade, when he finally confided in his mother. His chest […]
Using Donor Sperm: Greg and Katie Duncan
An unexpected diagnosis: Two years after their wedding, Greg and Katie Duncan felt ready to start a family. However, after trying for about six months, Katie still wasn’t pregnant. After trying Clomid to help stimulate her ovaries, attention finally turned to Greg. Katie’s OB-GYN ordered a sperm test for Greg, and the results left the […]
The Road To Adoption: Matt Troxler
When Matt Troxler was in kindergarten, he received an unexpected diagnosis. His teacher noticed some symptoms, and encouraged his parents to get Matt tested. They discovered Matt had Klinefelter syndrome, or 47, XXY. While in the process of making the diagnosis, the family worked with a speech therapist who had done her Master’s degree work […]
Baby Boy Born With Klinefelter XXY
Jaclyn Childers Klinefelter XXY Story Creating life is an incredibly intricate and personal thing. Before knowing the gender of your baby, you feel bonded to the soul growing inside of your body. That is how I felt. I assumed like most people probably do, that my baby was flawless. Finding out that he wasn’t what […]
Living With XXY Response to 1,000-Year-Old Remains May Be Nonbinary
Living With XXY NonProfit 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization Dear XXY Community, We became aware of the NPR, The Guardian, and Smithsonian Magazine articles published on August 9th, and August 10th, and were deeply distressed by the inaccuracy of the information shared. Our team is working to professionally address the issue with the news outlets but we […]
“Your son has Klinefelter’s Syndrome.”
A Mom’s Tale of XXY: We lived in blissful unawareness until our son was almost 20 in the fall of 2018 and the doctor told us Ethan may have Klinefelter syndrome. We had absolutely no idea that his learning difficulties, his stature, and thin physique were indicative of XXY. Ethan had annual physical checkups, and […]
They told their son “You’re an X-Man!”
Noelle Davidson is the mother of an eight-year-old son with Klinefelter Syndrome (KS), or 47, XXY. The family lives outside of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Noelle shared her story of getting pregnant later in life, what it was like to find out her son Jacob had Klinefelter Syndrome, and how things are going now. […]
