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Word: pite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John/Joan may be, the boy whose penis was accidentally severed by a surgeon when he was an infant and who was raised as a girl cannot be held up as the iconographic case that defines the natural pull of human sexual identity. In John's case, des pite extensive surgery to fit him with female genitalia and long socialization by a family that raised him as a girl, he always felt and acted like a boy. When he finally learned the truth about his identity in his teens, he was overjoyed, sought ou t reverse surgery and is now happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature 1, Nurture 0 | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

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