Babyhood

I recently showed Georgina Beyer's autobiography (she was the first transsexual ever to be voted Mayor, and to be elected to Parliament) to a French friend Patricia when she was at my house. She was really interested (having spent a year in New Zealand as a nanny) and asked lots of questions, including “Where was she operated?” Her three children and mine were in the room, so I was a little embarrassed and whispered “Well you know…. the genital region”. She burst out laughing, as she had meant “Where did the operation take place?”, i.e. in New Zealand, or overseas!