When I was pregnant with my daughter, I had an irrational fear. A deep and frightening worry that my little girl would be born with something called "Ambiguous Genitalia." There was nothing or no one who could convince me that she would be born healthy and "normal" until her actual birth and I could see for myself that she was healthy, whole and completely female.
But 1 out of every 15,000 live births results in an intersexed child, also known as a "pseudo hermaphrodite" and while I was one of the lucky ones, not everyone is. Those children are born with parts that don't automatically indicate whether they're a boy or a girl. They either have a very large clitoris, or a very small penis (photos after jump)
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