24 September 2006

What if It’s (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?

By ELIZABETH WEIL
September 24, 2006

When Brian Sullivan — the baby who would before age 2 become Bonnie Sullivan and 36 years later become Cheryl Chase — was born in New Jersey on Aug. 14, 1956, doctors kept his mother, a Catholic housewife, sedated for three days until they could decide what to tell her. Sullivan was born with ambiguous genitals, or as Chase now describes them, with genitals that looked . . . click title for article

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