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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 07:29 AM
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Couple's 13 y.o. Girl Actually A Boy (They Really Didn't Know)
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A CHINESE couple raised their only child for 13 years in the belief it was a girl, until a visit to the local hospital alerted them to the fact that he was really a boy, state media said.

The unidentified couple, from the central city of Zhengzhou, were fooled by their child's underdeveloped sexual organs, dressing him in girl's clothes and teaching him to go to the women's room, the Zhengzhou Evening News reported.

They did not realize anything was wrong until they were baffled by a "reaction in the lower half of his body" whenever he watched pretty women on TV, the paper said.

The worried parents took their child to the hospital, where a physical check-up corrected their mistake about the child's sex, according to the paper.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8981364%255E13762,00.html
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 07:32 AM
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1. Sorry, needs corroboration...
Edited on Tue Mar-16-04 07:59 AM by JHB
...I've heard of dumb parents, but come on.

Without some other corroboration, it's just another Bat-Boy sighting.

ON EDIT: From responses 2 & 4, OK point taken.

On the other hand, if that's the case it's hardly global news, is it?
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 07:38 AM
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2. last paragraph of article
Doctors concluded that he was suffering from a rare disease causing sexual organs to be somewhat hidden from view, and the boy was subsequently treated in a three-hour-long, successful operation, it said.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 07:49 AM
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4. um, read up on gender ambiguity and androgyny
as much as 1.0% of the population is born with ambiguous genitalia for various reasons. undecended testicles and slight variances in hormones near the time of delivery can cause even seasoned ob/gyns to get it wrong.

the particulars of this case might be unusual, but the general concept is not especially rare at all. the problem is that it's so taboo to discuss, so it appears far more rare than it is. most such people get raised as girls and eventually have surgery to conform the body to the social image. it's actually quite rare to correct the social image.
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Red State Rebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 10:11 AM
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11. I have a cousin that is an Hermaphrodite....tough life...
She was operated on as a toddler to make her as female on the outside as possible, but internally, she had both male and female organs. In her adulthood, it is obvious she would have been better off if they had made her into a male. She has a deep voice, stocky male build and walk and to my knowledge has never had a romantic relationship with either sex.
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 10:14 AM
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14. Good thing his wiring
alerted his parents to his natural preference. Goes to show. Despite being raised as a woman the brain expressed what it was attracted to.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 07:46 AM
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3. This really is a Free Republic subject. They do the sex stuff.
:crazy:
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DarkSim Donating Member (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 08:05 AM
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5. I live in China and i can tell you that in the local papers it said...
Edited on Tue Mar-16-04 08:07 AM by DarkSim
...That the child had been circumcised at a young age but the operation had gone "wrong", so, the doctors decided to just tell the parents it was a girl.

There was also a striking interview of the parents. If anyone lives in Beijing (and reads good enough mandarin to read a news paper), grab a recent copy of "Central news daily" and have a read.
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 10:13 AM
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13. That's terrible!
Poor kid! :(
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RoeBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 08:14 AM
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6. Huh?
"they were baffled by a "reaction in the lower half of his body" whenever he watched pretty women on TV, the paper said"

I have two boys, I've never observed their reactions to "pretty women on TV", at least not in their "lower half of their body".

What were these parents doing?
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 08:59 AM
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7. We are getting 14 inches of snow - and this is todays MATCOM?
I FEEL LIKE COMPLAINING!

I HATE SNOW AFTER 3/15

:-(

:-)
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 09:03 AM
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8. look again
Edited on Tue Mar-16-04 09:03 AM by matcom
got LOTS of stories today. check out the BBQ killings in Mississippi

or

the Panda Bear and the sex ed course :D
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 09:49 AM
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9. True - all good finds - but we live in Boston - and 10 to 14 outside 128
is my rant of the day!

Besides I still do not know if the guy crushed to death at the ice cream factory outside Boston this morning is going to show up in a batch of ice cream at the stores.
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HalfManHalfBiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 10:00 AM
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10. BBQ Killers!
Great (ex) band from Athens, GA
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 10:18 AM
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15. PLUS: Microwave butter popcorn vapor lung disease awarded $20 million
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20040316/ap_on_re_us/popcorn_lung_trial

Jury Awards Butter-Flavor Worker $20M
By CONNIE FARROW, Associated Press Writer

JOPLIN, Mo. - Eric Peoples cradled his wife and wept after a jury agreed that vapors from butter flavoring at the microwave popcorn factory where he once worked had permanently ruined his lungs.

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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 10:13 AM
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12. Whatever happened to
"March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb"?

Geez--I thought I'd seen the last of this white crap, but another storm? Sheesh--I should have stayed in Southern California. NOT.
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 11:07 AM
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16. See What Happens When Freepers Breed?
"morans"..
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