Living A Lie: Local Intersex Woman Shares Her Story
When a baby is born the first thing we ask: Is it a boy or a girl? But hundreds of babies are born each year with no obvious gender. For those kids immediate surgery to assign a sex was once the norm. Now some doctors are encouraging parents to wait and let the child decide.
Posted: 9:46 PM Nov 12, 2009
Reporter: McKenzie Martin
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/69933377.htmlWhen a baby is born the first thing we ask: Is it a boy or a girl? But hundreds of babies are born each year with no obvious gender. For those kids immediate surgery to assign a sex was once the norm. Now some doctors are encouraging parents to wait and let the child decide.
Intersex conditions actually happen more than any of us may realize. An estimated one in every two thousand babies is born intersex. A baby with this condition was once called a hermaphrodite.
A Colorado Springs woman is sharing her story in hopes of bringing awareness to what she says can happen if doctors and parents decide on the wrong sex at a baby's birth.
