[KantianBurke]

At the age of 4, she started asking, "Mommy, am I a boy or a girl?"

This line is so sad. Poor kid :<

[Huck]

:-(

[GovernmentShrinker]

I was once vaguely acquainted with a 40+ year old college student who was born a hermaphrodite. Her father wanted a son and insisted she be raised as a boy. Her mother didn't dare raise any objections to the domineering dad's decrees, but the then-child definitely felt like a girl and wanted to be one. Dad forced medical treatments aimed at making him/her a him, which made the final result she achieved as a her much less normal looking than would originally have been possible. In high school, she left home every day dressed as a boy since dad insisted, and a sympathetic school counselor met her a couple of blocks away in a car, where the boy/girl changed clothes in order to arrive at school as a girl. It took her a long long time to get her head together, but in early forties she was finally in college and amazingly well-adjusted. All things considered, I found it rather miraculous that she didn't grow up to be serial killer.

[krb]

Sounds like a really, really smart and alert child.

[Sender]

"Mommy, am I a boy or a girl?"

Typical two-party system reasoning. Always X or Y, never Z.