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"I was able to get a second letter. And that was all the surgeon required in order to agree to remove my testicles and perform a penectomy and a vaginoplasty on an 18 year old."

Corinna Cohn on Transitioning at 18 After Being Groomed Into Transgender Identity on Internet Chat Rooms In The Early 1990's.
Wesley Yang
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Corinna Cohn
Sep 18, 2023
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Today's bonus podcast for paid subscribers is the first 40 minutes of my marathon  conversation with Corinna Cohn. Toward the end of that podcast, I referred to the beginning of our conversation as "tense." I don't mean that we were in any way hostile, just that it took a little while for us to fully establish our rapport and for the conversation to bec…

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