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Cossey was originally born Barry … Before she could be accepted as a suitable candidate, doctors administered various tests … Tula has three X and one Y chromosomes
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I see myself as I was then, a small, anxious boy hiding amongst the bean rows … I would lie on my bed and dream that I was somebody else … I was a girl trapped inside a male form. … As I lay dreaming on my bed all those years ago, I had no way of knowing that I had been born between two sexes … To me at the age of twenty this meeting with Dr R … Dr R discovered that I had three Xs to my one Y.
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