Vallejo intersex poet Bryant finds truth about self, gender

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Vallejo intersex poet Bryant finds truth about self, gender
By Lanz Christian Bañes/Times-Herald staff writer

-- Rocky Michael Bryant
Posted: 03/09/2009 01:02:25 AM PDT

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_11869934

Shortly after their new child was born, Sam and Marie Bryant made a fateful decision.

They cut off his penis.

They gave him a feminine name -- Rosland Marie -- put him in dresses and sowed the seeds for his lifelong search for identity.

The boy in the mirror

Rosland Marie Bryant, now legally Rocky Michael Bryant, was born with ambiguous genitalia. In a word, she was intersex, a term now used in lieu of the outdated "hermaphrodite."