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To: cwiz24

Sometimes with hermaphrodites, the genitals do not become apparent until puberty. Sometimes parents raise someone as a girl only to find out they get a "growth" around the time of adolescence. They have more male hormones than female ones...it's all very confusing for everyone.

If the kid is not hermaphroditic though...the kid needs to be in therapy. There may be some weird hormonal imbalance.


21 posted on 03/04/2005 7:40:53 AM PST by sonserae
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To: sonserae

of these people have no concept of a girl being a "tom boy". Such a phase is normal and beyond the concept of these INSANE PC parents.


56 posted on 03/04/2005 7:48:31 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: sonserae

Thanks for your interesting take on this subject. I was also wondering how much of the the story remains untold. Such a decision must have been made with a whole lot of consideration of the consequences. I am doubtful that sane parents along with medical consultants would have done such a thing without some profound reasons.

Still, I do wonder why they did it so early in the child's life. If the child really is a hermaphrodite exhibiting characteristics of both genders, perhaps it is better to rectify the ambivalence early before puberty?

Strange story, indeed.


241 posted on 03/04/2005 11:10:55 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: sonserae

that was my first guess too, that this case might involve some sort of hermaphroditism, a birth defect involving the genitals, something like that. If not, than this is one sick situation and those parents are criminals.


257 posted on 03/04/2005 12:49:52 PM PST by sassbox
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To: sonserae

It said plainly "it was biologically a girl"


271 posted on 03/04/2005 2:07:45 PM PST by MacDorcha (When I say "democratic" I don't mean "Athenian Mob Rule")
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To: sonserae
They have more male hormones than female ones...it's all very confusing for everyone.

You mean, biology/chemistry play a role in all this?

HERETIC!!! YOU MUST BE BURNED AT THE STAKE!!!

But seriously, thanks for being a ray of light on a dark and dismal thread.

275 posted on 03/04/2005 2:14:32 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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