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Title: Texas and Jakarta: A Tale of Two Marriages
Post by: Butterfly on May 17, 2010, 05:12:12 PM
Texas and Jakarta: A Tale of Two Marriages
A.E. Brain
By Zoe Brain
16 May, 2010


http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/05/texas-and-jakarta-tale-of-two-marriages.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/05/texas-and-jakarta-tale-of-two-marriages.html)


This is a story of two marriages. Two Intersexed individuals. And the bizarre, and obscenely insane treatment Intersexed people get due to religiously-inspired law.

First, from the Jakarta Post:

    The recent case of Alterina Hofan highlighted the authority's unpreparedness in dealing with this issue.

    Alterina suffers Klinefelter's syndrome, a rare case where a male has an extra X chromosome that makes him look more like a woman.