Barbara grew up as an apparantly normal girl,
enjoying a happy childhood.
As her teenage years approached,
she looked forward to experiencing
the same sexual development she saw in other girls.
Gradually, however, she began to have a vague sense
that the expected changes weren't happening in her.
By the age of 14 she was really worried:
she had not yet menstruated,
and her breasts showed no signs of growth.
What she did have was a pain in her left groin
that eventually subsided,
only to be replaced by the appearance of a mass
in the left side of her labia.
With growing shock, she felt her voice dropping,
facial hair growing, and her clitoris enlarging
to become more and more like É
É a penis.
After Barbara's sixtheenth birthday,
her penis developped erections,
she produced ejaculations,
and she found herself feeling a sexual interest in girls.
By now she had become convinced that she really was
a boy.
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