[GovernmentShrinker]

Almost certainly, the boy had obvious physical gender abnormalities, and wasn't a full-blown male to begin with.

[jocon307]

"Almost certainly, the boy had obvious physical gender abnormalities, and wasn't a full-blown male to begin with."

Maybe that is the case, I hope you are correct, although really, at this point, nothing would surprise me. But even if it was there is a book about a fellow who was born a hermaphrodite, castrated, and raise as a girl. Eventually he found out the truth about himself, and now lives as a man. A damaged man, but a man.

If I had a half a clue as to the title, I'd try and look it up, but I really don't. Maybe someone else here knows of it. It was somewhat big news about 4 or 5 years ago.

[jonascord]

At one time, I would have assumed the same. Not any more. Recall that deaf activists want deaf foster children to be restricted to deaf foster parents. Something about protecting a culture. A Polish man kept his 6-year-old in a cage out back.

. Why is it a stretch, anymore, to presume that some rich chicken-hawk wants to play Frankenstein and build his own drag queen, and has enlisted a doctor to help?

We live in a strange world, and it's getting harder to separate fiction from reality.

[mountaineer]

Almost certainly, the boy had obvious physical gender abnormalities

Nothing in the story indicates this. It's just as likely he's a disturbed young man who thinks hacking off his genitals and growing breasts is going to make him happy.