Though an appearance of sexual normalcy can be constructed, fully functional reproductive organs cannot.Īccording to Dr. Hormones are also given towards this end, but there is a limit to what can be corrected medically. 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. Perhaps the rumor about a talented young singer therefore properly lay at the feet of someone who could not conceive of there being more than one person in the world bearing that particular given name.ĭegrees of intersexuality vary in intensity from presence of an additional Y chromosome to being born with a mixed set of genitals. Online searches for ‘ciara’ quickly found the Irish Ciara’s web page, which chronicled her experience of being surgically regendered. The Emerald Isle’s Ciara came into this world male, but in 1999 he was surgically transformed into a female. Ireland’s Ciara was born in 1968 (about 20 years before the birth of the popular Crunk & B singer). “I’ve never been on Oprah in my life - we all know I have years before I go on Oprah, so come on!”Ĭonfusion between the songstress Ciara and a transsexual in Ireland who shares that name name may well have worked to create this rumor. “They said Oprah said that on her show,” she laughed. “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. R&B sensation Ciara just wants everyone to know: She’s all woman. The singer herself denied the rumor, with the New York Daily News quoting her as saying Many urban legends that feature a shocking revelation being made on a television show identify 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). The assertion that Ciara announced her transformation from male to female on the Oprah Winfrey Show is false: we found no record of her ever having appeared as a guest on that program at the time this rumor was current. Ciara herself voiced this startling disclosure on national television, with the Oprah Winfrey Show often named as the venue in which she made this revelation.(NOTE: ‘Intersexual’ is the preferred medical term for persons of ambiguous gender, replacing ‘hermaphrodite.’) A surgical solution was sought on her behalf to correct her body to being wholly one gender rather than a mixture of the two. She started life as an intersexual, a person of mixed genders.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 gentialia converted to feminine form.Ciara 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 about this transformation.This rumor hit our inbox in a number of forms: And apparently he/she was on Oprah having an in depth conversation about it, along with discussing it in a magazine article. I was told that he had surgery, so he no longer has a penis. That he/she decided that he wanted to be a female at the age of 5, and his mother let him grow his hair out. I have heard a rumor that the R&B star, Ciara, was born male. There has been rumor around the internet that hip-hop artist, Ciara, was once a hermaphrodite until the age of 11, when she had surgery to remove her male “appendages.”

Even more, I heard that she stated it on national televison! I have been hearing from many people that the hip-hop artist Ciara used to be a man and had to have a sex change.

And around that time someone tied a salacious rumor to her - that she was born male but had been altered through surgical means to have the appearance of a female: Her 2004 album, “Goodies,” topped the charts, and she was 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. Back in 2005, Ciara Harris was an 18-year-old who performed under the stage name of Ciara and was dubbed the First Lady of “Crunk & B,” a genre of music described as a grinding, dance floor-friendly alternative to R&B.

Ciara like a boy