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Title: Our little girl was born a boy
Post by: Shana A on March 01, 2011, 12:00:39 PM
Our little girl was born a boy

by Katie Evans, Daily Mirror 1/03/2011

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/03/01/our-little-girl-was-born-a-boy-115875-22957238/ (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/03/01/our-little-girl-was-born-a-boy-115875-22957238/)

Jeanette and Justine Lane have an astonishing bond that goes beyond that of normal mother and daughter – because Justine was ­Jeanette's son for the first year of her life.

Just hours after giving birth 30 years ago, Jeanette and her husband Malcolm were shocked to discover their newborn baby was intersex – meaning it had male and female sex organs.

Told to bring up the child as a boy, they named him Justin. But just a year later the couple were advised to switch their baby's sex and bring him up as a girl.