Sons and Daughters
The village where girls turn into boys

http://harpers.org/archive/2017/08/sons-and-daughters/
Publisher:  Harper's Magazine
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article

An account of an isolated village in the southwestern Dominican Republic where children who are seemingly born female become male later in their childood; such cases are so prevalent in the village that it is no longer considered abnormal.

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Nobody is suggesting that surgery is never appropriate, or that the doctors in question are "inherently evil people" said Georgiann Davis, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an intersex activist. "They're trying to help. But if you frame something as a medical problem, then you're establishing the need for a medical response."