Like Tiresias, I was first one thing and then the other. I'm a former field hockey goalie, long-standing member of the Save-the-Manatee Foundation, rare attendant at the Greek Orthodox liturgy, and, for most of my adult life, an employee of the U.S. My most recent driver's license (from the Federal Republic of Germany) records my first name simply as Cal. My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. That's me on page 578, standing naked beside a height chart with a black box covering my eyes. Or maybe you've seen my photograph in chapter sixteen of the now sadly outdated Genetics and Heredity. Peter Luce's study, "Gender Identity in 5-Alpha-Reductase Pseudohermaphrodites," published in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology in 1975. Specialized readers may have come across me in Dr. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
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