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Description: | This adventure novel was awarded as a prize to George Turtle when he was a student at Croydon High School for Boys. It was a prize for being top of his class. George was brought up as a boy, but did not develop as one and always felt different. Baby Turtle was born of indeterminate sex. Puberty passed George by and he developed neither male nor female sexual secondary characteristics. This led to feelings of isolation and confusion. George was diagnosed as a hermaphrodite in the 1950s and Georgina uses that terminology to describe her experience. At the age of 34, after taking medical advice, Georgina had corrective surgery. Her birth certificate was finally corrected in 1960. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Rights holder: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Subjects: | Identity and Icons | Temporal: | 1937 | Source: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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