1 Money-influenced practioners would raise genetic males as females
3 cloacal exstrophy rare birth defect where organs are exposed
4 before 1959, no survivors
6 author's study of 29 genetic males, 24 were raised female
9 13 have declared themselves male (6 spontaneously, 7 after being informed)
12 "two others have refused persistently to declare gender identity (although both, at age 15 years, recently agreed to estrogen administration)"
14 > Parents of subjects who live as female noted that their children are happy. These subjects were not as socially active as their male counterparts, especially into mid-adolescence. Generally, they reported having difficulty fitting in with girls as they grew older.