00:00Growing up in 1980s suburban Baton Rouge was pretty idyllic for Christy. She loved
00:10spending time with her friends, running around the neighborhood. She wasn't even
00:15five feet tall. A little tomboy, just really feisty. I never in a million years
00:21could have guessed the truth.
00:24I am Christy, and I know what you're thinking. This is a transgender story, but it's
00:32not. I was around the age of 12. My mom, she said, soon you're gonna have to start
00:41taking these pills that are gonna help you develop breasts and make you look
00:44like other girls. My parents were screaming inside of themselves, please
00:50don't ask. I start reading about how some children are born with genitals that fall
00:57outside an arbitrary acceptable norm. This long, you get to be a boy. If it's less
01:02than that, you lose your phallus and you're raised as a girl. And it just hit me. I
01:07think this is about me. I get my records, and it just says a baby boy was turned
01:14into a girl. John Money was undisputed in the field of sexual science, and he had
01:20this case. People thought that my case was a success story, and I was disgusted and
01:25angry when I heard a boy. Oh, God. Wait, what? What? I am not alone.
01:33This is being done to thousands of kids around the world. In truth, it blew my mind. Physicians
01:43and surgeons around the world were willing to take on this theory. All of it was because
01:48of this lie. Problems that these children would have faced if nothing had been done would have
01:55been astronomical. I want to start hacking off doctors' genitals and say, now how do you
02:01think it feels? Sometimes forgiveness doesn't come easily. I just want to talk to him and
02:09tell him that what he did was wrong.
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