When he went to Yale University, Richard Raskind was captain of the Yale tennis team. But 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, priorto the sex-reassignment surgery, Raskind would have been described as a(n):

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Prior to the sex-reassignment surgery, Raskind would have been described as a transgendered man, as he was born biologically male but identified and felt discomfort with his assigned gender.

When He Went to Yale University, Richard Raskind Was Captain