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randome

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11. It's from the point of view of a hermaphrodite.

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Reply #5)

Fri Apr 17, 2015, 12:23 PM

Apr 2015

And REP is right, there are problems with some of the assumptions and the science behind it. But the writing style is great -IMO- and it does have some great insights.

Thoroughly enjoyable on a number of fronts.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

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Intersex surgeries spark move away from drastic treatment [View all] Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 OP

I'm glad there's a move away from surgery at birth/in childhood REP Apr 2015 #1

And, don't forget the 'shame' connected with having what Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #2

I think the mutilation at birth is even worse than being in a sideshow REP Apr 2015 #4

The horror, the horror. You have to think that these were Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #6

Some may have really thought they were helping, but Money was trying to prove a theory REP Apr 2015 #7

Not the first and certainly not the last, sadly. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #8

I'm currently reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, a Pulitzer prize-winning novel. randome Apr 2015 #3

Thanks, will see if I can find it over here in France... Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #5

It's not that great. It's about an intersexed person REP Apr 2015 #9

If the title of the docu. comes to you, give me a heads up, OK? Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #10

It's from the point of view of a hermaphrodite. randome Apr 2015 #11