Fresh Controversy Surrounds 8-Year-Old’s Gender Identification

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Fresh Controversy Surrounds 8-Year-Old's Gender Identification
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Staff Reporter
Monday Oct 19, 2009

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=97846

Josie Romero thinks of herself as a little girl, and exhibits the gender traits typically associated with girls. But her physical anatomy is that of a boy.

Such a dichotomy between body and mind is not unusual for transgendered people. Indeed, many transgendered adults say that they have early memories of feeling that they were in the wrong body; in such cases, the feelings aren't transient and do not proceed from instances in which children might play dress up or pretend to belong to the other gender.