For 14 months, Seven Atsila’s life was a nightmare. The then 15-year-old Waxhaw resident, who was assigned female at birth but now identifies as two-spirit, an indigenous term used to describe someone ...
The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful. By Ellen Barry As a teenager, Julie Rodgers attended Tuesday night group therapy sessions in which young ...