When he went to Yale University, Richard Raskind was captain of the Yale tennis team. In 1975 at the age of 41, and after years of counseling and a failed marriage, Raskind came to terms with his lifelong discomfort of being a male. He underwent sex-change surgery and re-emerged as Renée Richards. Using the terminology presented in your text, prior to the sex-reassignment surgery, Raskind would have been described as:
A)a transgendered man.
B)bisexual.
C)an intersexed individual.
D)a transgendered woman.

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Prior to undergoing sex-reassignment surgery, Richard Raskind struggled with his identity as a male and experienced discomfort with his gender. This aligns with the definition of a transgender individual, someone whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Therefore, the best choice is A) a transgendered man.

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