這東西最近很熱... Ciara Harris, an 18-year-old who performs under the sole name of Ciara, has been dubbed the First Lady of "Crunk & B," a genre of music described as a grinding, dancefloor-friendly alternative to R&B. Her 2004 album, "Goodies," topped the charts, and she has been nominated at the 19th annual Soul Train Music Awards in four categories, including best R&B/soul single, female ("Goodies") and best R&B/soul or rap new artist. She is beautiful and talented. And someone has tied a nasty rumor to her. We first heard this scuttlebutt about her being born a male in January 2005; it has since fallen on our ears in a number of forms: The singer came into the world as a male, but somewhere along the way either she or her parents decided she should become a girl, with surgery performed on her to bring this transformation about. She was born male, but a botched circumcision did irreparable harm to her manly parts, so her parents opted to have what was left of her made into a girl. She started life as an intersexual, a person of mixed genders. Once again, a surgical solution was sought on her behalf, but in this version of the whisper, it was to correct her body to being wholly one gender rather than a mixture of the two. (NOTE: 'Intersexual' is the preferred medical term for persons of ambiguous gender, replacing 'hermaphrodite.' Follow the link provided in the "Additional Information" section of this page for more information on intersexuality.) She voiced this startling disclosure on national television, with The Oprah Winfrey Show often named as the venue in which she made this revelation. Ciara's father serves in the U.S. military, so her family moved from Army post to Army post during her childhood, living in Germany, New York, California, Arizona, and Nevada, before finally settling in Atlanta. Ergo, claims that her parents just opted to have a girl child crafted from the male child the stork delivered should be viewed with skepticism, in light of the cost of such procedures and the relatively low pay accorded those in the armed forces. The assertion that Ciara was on The Oprah Winfrey Show is false; we can find no record of her having been a guest on that show. Many urban legends which feature a shocking revelation being made on a TV show name Oprah's as the one where it was voiced (e.g., designer Liz Claiborne confides she doesn't design for African-American women because "their hips are too big," designer Tommy Hilfiger states "If I knew that blacks and Asians were going to wear my clothes, I would have never designed them," the CEO of Procter & Gamble admits his company tithes ten per cent of its revenues to the Church of Satan). We haven't figured out why this is, other than Oprah Winfrey seeming like the kind of person one could tell anything to. The singer herself has denied the rumor. The New York Daily News quoted Ciara on this subject: R&B sensation Ciara just wants everyone to know: She's all woman. "You know what's funny? The rumor that I used to be a man," she told us at the launch party for Vibe Vixen magazine at Frederick's. "They said Oprah said that on her show," she laughed. "I've never been on Oprah in my life — we all know I have years before I go on Oprah, so come on! " Degrees of intersexuality vary in intensity from presence of an additional Y chromosome to being born with a mixed set of genitals. Treatment of cases of blatant intersexuality is generally (but not always) surgical in nature, with reconstruction performed on the infant patient to add or remove body parts so as to end up with a child completely male or female in physical appearance. Hormones are also given towards this end, but there is a limit to what can be corrected medically. Though an appearance of sexual normalcy can be constructed, fully functional reproductive organs cannot. According to Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, a recognized expert in this field of study, 1-1/2 to 2 percent of all births do not fall strictly within the tight definition of all-male or all-female, even if the child looks "normal." In reaching her numbers, Dr. Fausto-Sterling is counting all incidents of intersexuality, from mild to extreme. The incidence of children with mixed genitalia is pegged at 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 3,000, or 0.033 to 0.05 percent of all births. A similar rumor long ago attached to actress Jamie Lee Curtis. Barbara "mixed message" Mikkelson 哈哈! 原來國外也搞那麼扯的八卦 Ciara樹大招風 連Oprah也都牽涉進去 (有趣的是,內文中提到在Oprah的大嘴及對別人的招供中,發現一些種族的問題,這當中 包括Tommy Hilfiger的"真心話",呵!) 最後提到的,連Jamie Lee Curtis也曾被人懷疑過 變性或雙性問題對於Ciara應該是滿大的rumor 幸好不是真的! -- 勞動是一切財富的泉源； 勞動是人類一切生活的頭號基本條件； 勞動創造了人類自身。 <<Frederick Engels>> --

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