ISBN:
9780061120565
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0061120561
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 289, 18 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm
Edition:
1st Harper Perennial edition
Note:
In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment. On the advice of a reknowned expert in gender identity & sexual reassignment at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the boy was surgically altered to live as a girl. This landmark case, initially reported to be a complete success, seemed all the more remarkable since the child had been born an identical twin; his uninjured brother, raised as a boy, provided to the experiment the perfect matched control ... But the case was a failure from the outset. From the start the famous twin had, in fact, struggled against his imposed girlhood. Since age fourteen, when finally informed of his medical history, he made the decision to live as a male
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