When He Went to Yale University, Richard Raskind Was Captain

question 174

Multiple Choice

When he went to Yale University, Richard Raskind was captain of the Yale tennis team. In 1975 at the age of 41, and after years of counseling and a failed marriage, Raskind came to terms with his lifelong discomfort of being a male. He underwent sex-change surgery and re-emerged as Renée Richards. Using the terminology presented in your text, prior to the sex-reassignment surgery, Raskind would have been described as:

• A)a transgendered man.
• B)bisexual.
• C)an intersexed individual.
• D)a transgendered woman.

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