Come see the beauty 
of the north!

LISTINGS BY SHERWOOD REAL ESTATE

Contemporary, open concept home with
complete privacy. Double whirlpool tub,
shower, soapstone gas fireplace and wrap
around deck. Full basement.Two zone oil
hot water heat.Custom kitchen cabinets.
Double oversized garage.22.l acres open
and wooded with perennials, fruit trees,
sugar bush and hardwoods (very private).
Great mountain views (Pinnacle Moun-
tain). Formerly the Hummingbird Haven

Park like setting.Close to Quebec and an
hour to Burlington. Berkshire, $359,900

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Incredible historic building on the
national preservation society. Presently
the home of Sherwood Real Estate and
The Richford Antique and Craft Center.
The registered trademark ‘The Pink Lady‘
will be conveyed to the buyer with the
property. All original woodwork. Also,
the building is featured in the East Coast
Victorian book. 3 floor sprinkler system.
Caretaker’s apartment is in the back.

The Owner is a licensed Real Estate
Broker. Richford, $399,000

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MARGO SHERWOOD — SHERWOOD REAL ESTATE
66 Main Street, Richford,VT 05476 - (802) 848-3836 - sherwoodre@yahoo.com
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BY LYNN MCNICOL

I he gay rights movement

in this country is typically

. dated back to the Stonewall
riots of 1969, when lesbians and
gay men refused to be pushed
around any more by police raid-
ing the bar. In later years, trans-
gender individuals have found
greater acceptance in our “fam-
ily,” and bisexuals have as well,
to some extent. Thus, the LGBT
acronym.

But it’s only been fairly re-
cently that people born with in-
tersex conditions have found the
support to approach a more pub-
lic forum in which to deal with
the damaging treatment many of
them have had to endure, often
at the hands of medical profes-
sionals.

October 2006 marked only
the second annual Intersex
Awareness Day.

Sources on the Web indicate
that much of what people born
with intersex conditions (“anat-
omy that someone decided is
not standard for male or female,”
according to, the Intersex Soci-

 

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ety of North America) must face
is the great shame visited upon
them because their bodies do

I not “conform.” Many (and this

continues today) have received
surgery as infants to make their
bodies conform. Many of these
people say the surgery has been
traumatic to them, emotionally
and physically.

In the current issue of Spirit
of Change magazine (Fall, 2006),
social worker Linda Marks
writes with insight and compas-
sion about people born with
intersex conditions. In part she
refers to her book, Healing the
War Between the Genders.

Marks, of Newton, Massa- ,
chusetts, points out that gender
is perceived as being so basic
to our sense of identity that we
fear any deviations. That fear is
expressed in the medical inter-
ventions, misunderstandings by
the general public, and violence
towards people whose gender
expression or physical appear-
ance don’t conform.

However, Marks sees a posi-

 
 

tive side of what Native Ameri-
cancultures call “two-spirited”
people.

“What if we could view gender
as a process and not a condi-
tion?" she writes in Spirit of
Change. “And what if we could
imagine that the emergence of
people whose lives and exam-
ples force us to think more deep-
ly into the essence of gender
are actually spiritual leaders of
a sort, inviting us to look more
deeply into the nature of what it
means to be human?”

I have not read Marks’ book,
but her approach invites me to
look further. To begin to under-
stand the world of those born
with intersex conditions, I think
‘her book Healing the War Be-
tween the Genders would be a
good place to star't.V

a To read Mark's article,

go to wwwspiritofchange.
org. Also, see wvvw.intersex-
awareness-day.org, www.

intersexinitiative.org, and
www.bodieslikeours.org.

 

    The UV/\/\ LGBTQA Community  
wishes to acknowledge the many
I dedicated people involved with OlTI\/\ over
  the years for providing such a critical

resource for our community.

Having asource for LGBTQ news helped
  change our state, our institutions, and

our communities for the better.

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