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Title: Fresh Controversy Surrounds 8-Year-Old’s Gender Identification
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Post by: Shana A on October 20, 2009, 08:38:55 PM
Fresh Controversy Surrounds 8-Year-Old's Gender Identification
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Staff Reporter
Monday Oct 19, 2009
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=97846 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=97846)
Josie Romero thinks of herself as a little girl, and exhibits the gender traits typically associated with girls. But her physical anatomy is that of a boy.
Such a dichotomy between body and mind is not unusual for transgendered people. Indeed, many transgendered adults say that they have early memories of feeling that they were in the wrong body; in such cases, the feelings aren't transient and do not proceed from instances in which children might play dress up or pretend to belong to the other gender.
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Staff Reporter
Monday Oct 19, 2009
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=97846 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=97846)
Josie Romero thinks of herself as a little girl, and exhibits the gender traits typically associated with girls. But her physical anatomy is that of a boy.
Such a dichotomy between body and mind is not unusual for transgendered people. Indeed, many transgendered adults say that they have early memories of feeling that they were in the wrong body; in such cases, the feelings aren't transient and do not proceed from instances in which children might play dress up or pretend to belong to the other gender.