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Erich Amborn - Und dennoch Ja zum Leben

Original title: "Und dennoch Ja zum Leben: Die Jugend eines Intersexuellen in den Jahren 1915–1933" (And Yet Yes to Life: The Youth of an Intersexual in the Years 1915–1933) by Erich Amborn.

"This text captivates the reader in an impressive way. The sober and restrained depiction of the consequences of such an otherness alone is hardly conceivable for the "normal person" and touches the reader intensively and lastingly. This segregation from human society is an existential omen that is difficult to bear and to overcome. In this text, one is confronted with a fate that illuminates the human condition from an unknown and hidden side.

For those who want to listen, this is an instructive and continuing example of what life can mean. Understanding, insights, and tolerance undoubtedly make reading a win. The human being, whose decisive years of development are described in this text, was born without a clear gender determination. In accordance with his physical and psychic disposition, nature has placed him between the definable poles of man and woman, just as if this nature wanted to say: "Here you have your strangeness of your body and your psyche, see how you can cope with it and how you can come to a life worthy of man. In any case, you are an outsider of 'normal' society.""

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