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Tony Jones<\/a> has posted on a topic that I also touched on recently, sharing some personal accounts of the difficulties faced by people who, because of their chromosomes and\/or their genitalia, might be considered heterosexual according to one country\u2019s laws and homosexual according to another\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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