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Title: What is it like to be neither female nor male?
Post by: Shana A on September 19, 2009, 08:55:36 AM
Post by: Shana A on September 19, 2009, 08:55:36 AM
What is it like to be neither female nor male?
By KELLY BURNS - The Dominion Post
Last updated 05:00 19/09/2009
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-newspapers/west-coast-6013/news-6662/2881316/What-is-it-like-to-be-neither-female-nor-male (http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-newspapers/west-coast-6013/news-6662/2881316/What-is-it-like-to-be-neither-female-nor-male)
One spent the first year of life as a boy, the other was raised as a girl.
But both are now leading starkly different lives.
Mani Bruce Mitchell and Yann Bradburn were intersex babies.
Or "hermaphrodites".
But after haunting "corrective surgeries" and childhoods of secrecy and shame, they are now living openly as intersex people.
By KELLY BURNS - The Dominion Post
Last updated 05:00 19/09/2009
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-newspapers/west-coast-6013/news-6662/2881316/What-is-it-like-to-be-neither-female-nor-male (http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-newspapers/west-coast-6013/news-6662/2881316/What-is-it-like-to-be-neither-female-nor-male)
One spent the first year of life as a boy, the other was raised as a girl.
But both are now leading starkly different lives.
Mani Bruce Mitchell and Yann Bradburn were intersex babies.
Or "hermaphrodites".
But after haunting "corrective surgeries" and childhoods of secrecy and shame, they are now living openly as intersex people.