Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. The idea that a persons gerpd is fixed ot birth gender is fixed at birth, defined on the birth certificate is undergoing investigation. For some, theres a lifetime struggle between what your body says you are, and who you are. The whole idea of gender doesnt fit the true sense of themselves, but nature has, from the day of birth, made things ambivalent. For a long time intersex infants, where genders ambiguous at birth were given a gender by parents, told to choose male or female. Al jazeeras Ashar Quraishi profiled an adult who felt the approach could force parents to make the wrong choice. Reporter today this person does not identify as he or she, preferring to be called they. I thought i was a girl. People called me she, i was jen fer. Thats my name. Reporter until the age of 18 she identified as time ail. Living as a girl, believing she was one. But she never had ovaries, and, in fact, genetically has xy chromosomes, typical in boys. Its know
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