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Article: Study says gender identity may be malleable after all
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- July 7, 1998
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MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-07-1998
CHICAGO (AP) _ A Canadian boy who was raised as a girl after his penis was irreparably damaged during circumcision continues to live as a woman, suggesting gender identity develops after birth, researchers say.
The case is only the second documented case of a boy being ``assigned'' a new gender after his genitals were mutilated during circumcision.
The study, released Monday in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics, contradicts the findings in the first case, in which the boy returned to life as a male.
The Canadian who is living as a woman describes herself as bisexual. As of last summer, she was in a relationship ...