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Old 04-12-2013, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Hal :-) View Post
My wife was a Neonatal RN and I recall her saying that sometimes the doctor had to make the sexual determination decision. Something called Ambiguous Genitalia and they decided the sex. Maybe they made mistakes.

I really wish people could be more open-minded in our divisive society.
We probably would be more open minded if they would stay out of our pockets! Seniors are scrambling for chemotherapy treatments because of the sequestor - people should get sex change operations on our dime????
Doesn't make sense to me - especially if we are talking about medicare. You lived this long (65) the way you are, you can probably make it to the end of the road in the same body.