Bella Waxman: 2 books

Claire Wilson was born in 1940 when little was known about the congenital defect known today as Intersex. Her father refused to accept the new baby, seeing “him” as a poofter. Consequently, the baby was medically mutilated and raised as a boy in the hope that “he” would turn out as a normal man...

Who or what is she? Trying to be the boy her family desires, Claire Wilson struggles with her gender dysphoria until one day her mother explains that she was born a hermaphrodite, having two genders. Claire was born with a congenital defect but was medically mutilated as a baby at the behest of her father...