Middlesex
Mientras leía Middlesex, más de una vez llegué a sentir algo que bien podría expresarse con un mi pobre niño o pobre hombre, si bien alguien capaz de pasar por tamaña travesía genética sin ahogarse ni quedar permanentemente a la deriva, tiene bien poco de pobre: "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Specialized readers may have come across me in Dr. Peter Luce's study, "Gender Identity in 5-Alpha-Reductase Pseudohermaphrodites," published in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology in 1975. Or maybe you've seen my photograph in chapter sixteen of the now sadly outdated Genetics and Heredity . That's me on page 578, standing naked beside a height chart with a black box covering my eyes. My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license (from th...