This short but thoughtful documentary interviews several women - and they are women - who were born with a complex genetic deformity; they were once called hemaphrodites but are now generally alluded to as intersex. These are not delusional or dysmorphic people who believe they were born in the wrong body but genuine cases of Mother Nature getting it wrong.
They go into considerable depth about the real problems they faced and for at least one of them how they were deceived by the medical profession. At one time this was understandable. Lady Colin Campbell was born in 1949. She isn't intersex but was raised initially as a boy because she was born with a fused labia and deformed clitoris. Medicine has progressed a lot since then including for intersex people, although they still face many problems, thankfully not so much from others but from the physical realities, including infertility.
They go into considerable depth about the real problems they faced and for at least one of them how they were deceived by the medical profession. At one time this was understandable. Lady Colin Campbell was born in 1949. She isn't intersex but was raised initially as a boy because she was born with a fused labia and deformed clitoris. Medicine has progressed a lot since then including for intersex people, although they still face many problems, thankfully not so much from others but from the physical realities, including infertility.
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