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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/092755607X262793 International Journal of Children’s Rights 15 (2007) 365–390 T HE I NTERNATIONAL J OURNAL OF C HILDREN ’ S R IGHTS www.brill.nl/chil Gender Atypical Organisation in Children and Adolescents: Ethico-legal Issues and a Proposal for New Guidelines Simona Giordano Lecturer in Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester Introduction Case histories 1. Jan Morris I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl. I remember the moment well, and it is the earliest mem- ory of my life. I was sitting beneath my mother’s piano, and her music was falling around me like cataracts, enclosing me as in a cave. The round stumpy legs of the piano were like three black stalactites, and the sound-box was a high dark vault above my head [. . .] On the fact of things it was pure nonsense. I seemed to most people a very straightforward child, enjoying a happy childhood. I was loved and I was loving, brought up kindly and sensi- bly, spoiled to a comfortable degree [. . .] by every standard of
The International Journal of Children's Rights – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007
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