An item on Sky news tonight about the very rare individuals who feel they have been born into the wrong bodies, with the wrong sex.
I know of a case from a shrink acquaintance involving a woman convinced she was really a man, who went to great lengths to make it so: having a penis made out of a chunk of thigh flesh and finding surgeons - in the Harley St area I think - to do the butchery.
The lady in question was black, American and 'very ill', meaning mad really I suppose. You'd need to be wouldn't you? De Sade would have loved it.
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