Review: An intimate, but muted, portrait of gender confusion
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Review+intimate+muted+portrait+gender+confusion/3479541/story.html9/3/10
In March 1968, "during the first signs of spring breakup of the ice," a child is born (at home) in the village of Croyden Harbour on the remote Labrador Coast. It's a relatively easy birth, and the baby seems healthy, but something is wrong: One testicle had not descended and the baby also had a labia and a vagina.
It is decided, largely by the child's father, that the baby will be raised as a boy, after a surgery in Goose Bay. His parents name him Wayne, and they keep his hermaphroditism a closely held secret, feeding him hormone pills as he ages to keep his gender identity relatively stable.
