[TedsGarage]

Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Middlesex" dealt with this issue. It was about Calliope Stephanides, who appeared to be a girl, but at puberty, started developing masculine features. Eventually, she decided to live as a man. (This doesn't ruin the book. It's all at the start. What's interesting is why it happened and how he/she discovered it.) It's an excellent read.

[sonserae]

I read "Middlesex" as well and became very sympathetic towards the people who aren't either a girl or boy. It's an aweful way to live. At birth, a doctor chooses what the sex is, and in turn takes away the "feeling" down there....many aren't able to feel any sexual stimulation because it's been surgically removed. They grow up in a society that categorizes if you are a girl or a boy but what if you have the hormones for both? How confusing that would be. Although I have very conservative views, I couldn't help but put myself in the person's place. They were born with a physical deformity and the consequences of that are devastating. Everyone should read "Middlesex".