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+Money-influenced practioners would raise genetic males as females
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+cloacal exstrophy rare birth defect where organs are exposed
+before 1959, no survivors
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+author's study of 29 genetic males, 24 were raised female
+20 of 24 had a sister
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+13 have declared themselves male (6 spontaneously, 7 after being informed)
+7 still ID as female
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+"two others have refused persistently to declare gender identity (although both, at age 15 years, recently agreed to estrogen administration)"
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+> 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.
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