COULD HAVE BEEN A BOY OR GIRL
Received Friday, 8.30 p.m. KCT YORK, Qctober 2. Dr. Rlmcr Hess, chief of the urological department at St. Vincent's Hospital, Erie, P-ennsylvania, described a c-ase today in which lie' had the choice of converting a fiye-year-old into a boy or girl. He said he made the patient a girl beeanse the child's family preferred it and neighbourbood playmates had believed 4be~ child was a girl. _ Dr. Hess showed a motion pieture of the operation to. the United States Chapter of the International Co.Rege of S.urgeons. In an interview he described the patient as a true ease of hermaphrodism — in whieh a person is in e.qual balanee between male and female. The ohild's both sex eharacteristics were being developed equally. Midway in an explofatofy abdominal operation it- was determined that the of gans of both sexes were present. He had to decide at that point whether to mahe the patient a girl or boy. Certain male organs were removed and the child beeame a true girl. Ultimately she might be capable ,of mbtherhood.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1947, Page 5
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