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Battling the sexes

Started by Butterfly, January 31, 2011, 05:35:19 PM

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January 31, 2011, 05:35:19 PM
Battling the sexes
ABC.net Australia
01 February, 2011


http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/43358.html


When a baby was born with ambiguous genitals a generation or so ago, it was pretty much standard medical practice to chop off whatever male-looking appendages might be there and declare the hapless infant a girl.

Clinicians saw the bringing of such unacceptable anatomy into line as an urgent task and generally punted for the female sex because, as the saying went: "It's easier to dig a hole than to construct a pole."
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