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The Independent: The third sex: The truth about gender ambiguity

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March 21, 2010, 10:44:14 AM

The Independent: The third sex: The truth about gender ambiguity

by admin on Sunday, 21 March, 2010

http://oiiaustralia.com/independent-sex-truth-gender-ambiguity/

    Adele Addams wasn't given such a choice. Born in the late 1970s, she has Klinefelter's Syndrome, so is XXY; chromosomally neither male nor female, in other words. Her parents were encouraged to assign her as male, and surgery was performed immediately. In her mind, this was "the wrong decision".

    After a difficult childhood and adolescence – "I eventually went into care, as my family couldn't cope with what was supposed to be a boy but looked and sounded more like a girl" – she began living as a gay man. Yet this didn't feel right either, and three years ago, after "a lot of fighting", she was granted NHS surgery to make her body female. Now 31, she finally feels that "it's all come good", and is passionate about empowering others to define their own gender.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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