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But tonight youre going to meet someone who grew up and concluded the choice that was made was wrong. Heres my nightline coanchor juju chang. Reporter its the first question when a babys born. Is it a boy or a girl . Sometimes the answer isnt that simple. They told me that he was intersex. Reporter meaning born with both male and female genitals. Pamela and Mark Crawford werent bothered by the fact that the baby they were about to adopt was intersexed. That seemed like no big deal. Reporter its more common than you might think. Roughly 1 in every 2,000 babies are born interseconded each year. Theres no protocol how to treat inter intersex the children. Doctors are doctors have quoteunquote fixed it by choosing one gender or another. Parents are questioning whether thats the right thing to do. I said dont let him get the surgery, he hasnt gotten the surgery, has he . But he had, after his 1st 1stbirthday. South carolina. He had been transformed into a girl. But its clear even in toddlerhood he felt and acted like a boy. He says, i feel weird, i dont think i should be going into the girls restroom. Reporter hes now 9 years old. Weve been asked to keep his face off hyme cam. He could play with this stuff for hours. Reporter his brother says his little brother was robbed of his right to live as a man. What happened to him was unnecessary. Unjust. Unconsented. And hes been castrated so that is likely to have lifelong impact. Irreversible. Reporter 35yearold sifa says he knows all about irreversible. Like emcee he was born intersexed. A doctor assigned him female but it led to years of agonizing cushion. At what age did you question your gender . Until 7 i thought i was a boy. Reporter he grew up in the bronx wearing catholic schoolgirl uniforms. Even went to the prom. It wasnt until college sifa started to ask serious questions. Thats when he got ahold of his medical records. Initially, they had written that i had ambiguous genitalia. They checked it. But then they scratched it out and put that i was normal. Then i felt betrayed. You were kept in the character. Of course. Reporter he says he had no idea he had undescended december tee testes, no idea a surgery turned him biologically into a girl. His mother says she trusted the doctors and condition sented to the procedure. Years later sifa felt like a man. In his mid20s he decided to live like one. As a result, every week he must inject himself with testosterone. I have a fear of having moon b man boobs. These people are not disordered. Theyre just a bit different. Reporter protesting against premature operations performed on children. Arguing intersexed people should have the right to decide for themselves when theyre ready. Sifa agrees. I feel like i need to wear a suit. Reporter now is getting ready for an occasion more than 20 years in the making. This is it. This is like a big moment. Reporter he is about to meet with the doctor who surgically removed his testicles at age 13. Transforming him into a girl. With his mothers consent. A surgery he says he never wanted. I probably have a whole bunch of emotions that come up. Hes the surgeon, signature right here. Terry hensell. Reporter dr. Herry hensle. What would you say if you were facetoface with him today . I think i would ask him questions. Because hes a human being. And i think human beings make mistakes. Reporter turns out hes still practicing and a Professor Emeritus at columbia university. He says new parents with an intersexed baby are often desperate to have their child fixed, surgically turned into a boy or girl as fast as possible. Have you had parents thank you for intervening early . All the time. What do they say . Well, thank you for big me my little girl. Reporter the photos are too graphic to show on television but dr. Hensle wanted me to see how ambiguous these cases can be. What do you tell mommy that is . Uh yeah what is that . Reporter sifa argues in his case, there was no medical urgency. But many doctors argue doing it younger can avoid painful scarring down the road. Both physically and emotionally. I think its more parents anxiety about information being disseminated about their abnormal child. Reporter the very definition of gender normality is evolving. A persons biological sex is not determined does not determine their gender. Right so gender is not genitalia . Its not. Its in the brain, its in the spirit, its in the heart. Reporter nowadays gender identity is more open. But in sifas time it was kept quiet. The criticism that is, these doctors are playing god. No. I used to. And i really liked it. But it wasnt the right thing to do. Theres a real sense that if patients, even patients from 20 years out, were listened to, were heard, that that would be a big step forward. Huge. I totally and thoroughly 100 agree. Jimmy we asked dr. Hensle if hed meet with sifa. Youd be open to that . Sure. Reporter today atlanta to new jersey for the meeting. I think it feels so surreal. I havent seen this man in 20plus years. What makes you nervous . I have the stories of so many people. That youre walking in there with. Yeah. Reporter sifa says he never had a chance to be heard. Now thats about to change. Terry hensle. Hi. Hey. Reporter before the dialogue begins dr. Hensle tries to shut down the interview. Something gets said and its just the wrong twist i cant let that happen. I cant. I cant. I hope you understand that. Reporter sifa calmly and gently refuses to take no for an answer. If you had it to do all over again, if you saw me as a baby with ambiguous genitalia i would bring to it a gender committee who would talk about the pros and cons. If you have testosterone you have a male brain. A male brain is a male brain is a male brain. Reporter these days many hospitals rely on a gender committee which decides the course of action. The point is that what happened to you, it was done not out of malice. Not out of lack of thinking about it. It was done because that was the state of the art in 19 whatever the date was. I wanted to make sure that you understand that our learning curve has increased dramatically. Reporter thats when i joined the conversation. Im wondering if you think fits out there, or you yourself who have some remorse about some of the surgeries that were done . No i have no regrets. Now, would i have done things differently . Shull. But i dont have i was dealing in my heart of hearts with what i thought was the right thing to do. So what did you think . I think it was so interesting, that moment when he said that he didnt have any regrets. I was like, wow. And i guess, you know you would have to do that in order to not to avoid feeling. Reporter we asked dr. Hensle to clarify his lack of regret. If you want the truth, i dont feel regret about it. Because i did the best i could do based on what i knew. Reporter because theres no clear protocol on how to treat intersexed children, these operations are still happening. Which is why the crawfords are suing doctors at medical university of South Carolina and the state, claiming they assigned their adopted child the wrong gender. The case involving their son emcee could potentially provide a first of its kind precedentsetting ruling. We reached out to the hospital where the surgery was performed. They declined our request for interview but issued this statement. Musc will vigorously defend in this case with a propond rans of evidence that will also serve to explain why musc does not accept the information as alleged. There was no justification for mutilateing his genitals. Thats what they did. They removed his penis. They did unnecessary surgery on a happy, healthy kid. 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Getting louder and louder philly cheesesteak and egg sizzling with prime rib and gooey cheese. I better just silence this sizzle the new philly cheesesteak and egg skillet. Dennys. Welcome to americas diner. Tonight youll meet the survivors who, in an instant, were caught up in epic disaster. How did they make and it what did it do to their lives . The search continues at this hour red cross volunteers have been on the scene reporter it was a disaster that spoke to one of our most primal fears. The ground under your feet giving way. August 1st 2007. Minneapolis, minnesota. The i35 bridge, 115 feet up in the air, collapses seemingly out of nowhere. 13 people died. It was a Huge National story and one that i covered personally. Theyre going to have to remove tons and tons of concrete and steel reporter and now many of the people who survived the collapse are telling their stories of survival. I can see out my windshield. I can see the bridge going down and all the cars going down with it. Reporter as part of a new abc series called in an instant. I heard it. I could see the roadway going up and up. Reporter which combines eyewitness testimony with vivid recreation to explore the heroism, the shock, the loss and the will to live. I had debated taking a different route that day that would kind of veer me off of dealing with the construction traffic. Reporter Lindsay Walsh commuted across the bridge every drar at 6 05 p. M. Prime rush hour, everything changed. I made it to about the middle of the bridge when i heard a snap. A beam. A clank. It was a very distinct sound of metal just snapping in half. And i was in free fall. Reporter jeff wingate was working construction on that bridge the day of the collapse. The next thing i knew i was in the river. Half laying on the bridge deck, half in the water. And then there was just people screaming everywhere. Reporter while jeff watched the horror unfolding, which included a school bus dangling from the bridge lindsay was fighting for her life. I accepted that that was where i was going to die. I was knocked unconscious briefly. After i came to i got up. I pulled a few of the people jeff saved was lindsay. I kicked and i hoped. And i reached the surface. And i gasped for air. Over here grab this broom there you go. He saw me and he fished me out with a broom handle. I pulled her up out of the water and she was hurt pretty bad from what i remember. Youre all right, ive got you. There was all kinds of chaos noise above us. There was helicopters, there was sirens, there was smoke. Just everything. They are actually on the top of the Bridge Reporter nicole olsen was at home watching live as her husband was fighting for his life during the collapse. The surreal feelings that youre in at that moment almost like time standing still. Reporter she describes her enormous relief when she finally saw her husband on tv. Look there, there i was just hysterical. There he was. Reporter one Common Thread among the survivors, they all helped one another. As gary babineaux told me after the collapse. Are people throwing the hword at you, hero . Its what anyone, really, would do. In a time like that youve got to help the people that need it the most. Reporter during an investigation the ntsb cited a major design flaw in a plate that held sections of the bridge together as the cause of the collapse. The new bridge reopened a year later. And jeff had a hand in the construction. I worked on that project. Worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week on that job until it was done. A little more than a year after the deadly bridge collapse in mihm, a new bridge opened today. Reporter today, all these years later, the gratitude of the survivors is palpable. Our baby was born 15 days after the bridge collapse. And it turned out to be a boy. Just the other day i was laughing uncontrollably. I was like, whoa. I havent done that in a while. So life is very different. I think ive finally put the pieces back together. Im so, so incredibly thankful that im here to see them and to be with them and to be there for them. It made me really appreciate what i have. In an instant premieres this friday at 9 00 eastern on abc. Up next on nightline, theres a reason they call him the hulk a pitbull who weighs 175 pounds. Do you think you could take this guy for a walk . Huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker . I look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. You have potential. You have. Oh boy. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Yoplait. With a smooth and creamy taste your whole family loves. 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And his owners say this breed can actually make great family pets. Even so, trying to take this particular pitbull for a walk is not easy. Just ask abcs sarah hain. Hello how are you . Reporter its not easy to get busy new yorkers to stop in their tracks. But this dog has what it takes. Meet the aptly named hulk. Youre a beautiful dog. Reporter he may just be the worlds biggest pitbull. Weighing in at a whopping 175 pounds. Hulk became a sensation when his owners, marlon and lisa posted videos online to show that pitbulls can be family dogs. [ dog howling ] reporter the hulks best friends . Marlon and lisas 3yearold son jordan. Now the hulk is taking over nyc. Whats the name . Hulk. Reporter and doing what any tourist would do. Getting pampered. Everyone can use a little polish polish, even hulk. Reporter this 18monthold pup might not be done growing. They grow until theyre about 3 . Yes. How big do you think hes going to get . 190 in about a year year and a half, fair to say. Reporter owning a dog this big does have its challenges. What does his meal look like . How much food is it . He eats about 50 pounds of dog food per week. Reporter but marlon says hulk is a gentle giant. Hes cute balanced friendly, loving dog. Reporter hes hoping hulk can prove to the public that pitbulls can be loving pets. Hes the perfect ambassador dog for this. Reporter for nightline, im sarah haines in new york. He is a great ambassador. This question for you, does your family pet have any unusual qualities . You can head over to our Facebook Page and tell us all about it in the comments. I for one have a cat who has four teeth. Thank you for watching abc news tonight. Tune into gma first thing in the morning. Online 24 7 at abcnews. Com as well. Thanks again for watching and good night. 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