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Born Both: An Intersex Life
Viloria, Hilda
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Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
ISBN:
0-316-34784-1 (0316347841)
ISBN-13:
978-0-316-34784-6 (9780316347846)
Binding:
Hardcover
Copyright:
2017
Publish Date:
03/17
Weight:
1.22 Lbs.
Pages:
340
Subject Class:
PSY (Psychiatry and Psychology)
Return Policy:
Non-Returnable.
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Abstract:
My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt scared and alone, especially given my attraction to girls. But unlike most people in the first world who are born intersex--meaning they have genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, and/or chromosomal patterns that do not fit standard definitions of male or female--I grew up in the body I was born with because my parents did not have my sex characteristics surgically altered at birth. It wasn't until I was twenty-six and encountered the term intersex in a San Francisco newspaper that I finally had a name for my difference. That's when I began to explore what it means to live in the space between genders--to be both and neither. I tried living as a feminine woman, an androgynous person, and even for a brief period of time as a man. Good friends would not recognize me, and gay men would hit on me. My gender fluidity was exciting, and in many ways freeing--but it could also be isolating. ... Born Both is the story of my lifelong journey toward finding love and embracing my authentic identity in a world that insists on categorizing people into either/or, and of my decades-long fight for human rights and equality for intersex people everywhere.
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