Eden Atwood

Eden Atwood is an American jazz musician, actress and an advocate for the civil rights of people born with intersex traits. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee and moved to Montana at the age of five. She is the daughter of Hubbard Hub Atwood, a composer and arranger for Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole among others, and granddaughter of the novelist, A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

Eden Atwood was born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome . AIS is an intersex trait occurring in approximatelyin 20,000 individuals. In an individual with complete AIS, the bodys cells are unable to respond to androgens, or male hormones. Eden publicly discussed her life as a woman with AIS for the first time in liner notes for her 2002 album, Waves The Bossa Nova Session, with Bill Kohlhaase . Later she was featured on ABCs Primetime Live in 2008.

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