I'm a Woman with Male Chromosomes
Katie Baratz thought she was a typical teenage girl — until her parents let her in on the shocking truth that changed her life forever.
By Sophie Moura
http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/relationship-issues/articles/woman-with-male-chromosomes (http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/relationship-issues/articles/woman-with-male-chromosomes)
The year I was in fifth grade, I saw a television commercial for tampons. Like most 10-year-olds, I'd never heard of a tampon. But when I asked my mom what one was, she started crying.
How do you tell your daughter that she's never going to need tampons? That she won't get her period or have babies, and that those things are the least of what sets her apart?
OK I know I shouldn't laugh, but this bit grabbed my attention:
QuoteThe belief since the 1950s was that if a woman knew she had this, she'd go crazy or become a lesbian.
Presumably, they could always wave some magic herbs over it.
In Virginia they put a female criminal to male prison only because she had XY-genotype.