Now she’s a he after high court allowed name, gender change

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Now she's a he after high court allowed name, gender change

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080916-161062/Now-shes-a-he-after-high-court-allowed-name-gender-change
Tetch Torres
9/16/2008


MANILA, Philippines—Jeniffer Cagandahan is now Jeff Cagandahan after the Supreme Court let the 27-year-old Laguna native change her, rather his, name and gender.

In a 13-page decision, the high court second division recognized Cagandahan's intersex condition and said: "Thus, to him should belong the primordial choice of what courses of action to take along the path of his sexual development and maturation."

Cagandahan was born a female in 1981. But as she grew up, her ovarian structure began to contract, her breast failed to develop and had no menstruation. She began producing male hormones.