From: "Sherry Nilsson" <wretchedgirl-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: male or female???
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 10:18:32 PST


As a psych major, I truly appreciate this article.  Thanks!


Cheers
Sherry 


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>
>This individual's pain can provide a lesson to society. It's time to 
reexamine
>our assumptions about what it means to be a boy or a girl, a man or a 
woman. A
>child born with ambiguous or injured genitalia (about one in every 
1,000
>births) should not necessarily undergo a series of painful surgeries.
>Researchers suggest that parents and children be referred to 
appropriate and
>long-term counseling rather than to immediate surgery and sex 
reassignment.
Then, when and if the time comes, the individual can
>choose their own gender, instead of having society impose one on them.
>


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