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Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body

How We Live Now with Katherine May

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The Importance of DNA Testing in Pregnancy

When she was very early in pregnancy I went to have a test which most people have to find out about the sex of their baby because it's incredibly much more reliable than just looking on a scan. It also tests for all the sort of chrome zone abnormalities that can happen. So there'd been a year of me trying all the other embryos we'd made which time I was thinking our embryo could have been born to somebody. And as it all turned out it was just a lab mistake. My son is entirely both of his allotted parents but there was a good few weeks during which I was outside of legal precedent outside. The rectically misogynistic thing I've ever quite loved. Yeah and they

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