When someone is raised female and the genes say XY
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 19:07
in Health & Medicine
It's the birth defect people don't talk about. A baby is born not completely male or female. The old term was hermaphrodite, then intersex. Now it's called "disorders of sexual development." Sometimes the person with the problem doesn't even know it and finds out in an all too public way.
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