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SEP
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2009
I am a Woman with Male Chromosomes [video]
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As controversial world champion runner Caster Semenya is reported to have both male and female sexual characteristics, Sarah Graham, 40, writes about her own life as an intersex woman in I Feel for Caster Semenya - I am a Woman with Male Chromosomes:

EXCERPT: "Although I don't wish to speculate on Caster's diagnosis – that's her private business – I want her to know that she is not alone. And only she can decide her gender – nobody else can. I had absolutely no idea that I was intersexed – nor did any of my partners. But my doctor and gynecologists did know the truth about my body. I was lied to – and my parents were too. This wasn't a one-off. It was standard policy (until the mid-1990s) to hide the truth about all intersex conditions like mine."


For more about the concepts of gender and transgeder people, please see the superb educational video below "Transgender Basics" produced by the Gender Identity Project, a program of NYC's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.


Sarah Graham


Transgender Basics

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