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Title: Atlanta's Intersex Police Officer Seeks Awareness
Post by: Natasha on November 29, 2008, 11:29:27 PM
Atlanta's Intersex Police Officer Seeks Awareness

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0406.html (http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0406.html)
Craig Washington
11/28/2008

As a teenage girl, she grew facial and chest hair, and never had a regular menstrual cycle. As an adult, several of her girlfriends would remark that such characteristics were not normal.

"I never saw myself as a girl or as a woman. At 19, I started dating women. They were like, 'you are not a woman, you don't act like a woman and there is nothing girly about you,'" Harris told Atlanta Progressive News.