What am I? My brain tells me I am a boy but my body tells me I am a girl. I’ve known since I was seven that I was a boy. I didn’t ask to be this way. Why can’t I be like other kids? Why can’t I be normal? Society tells me I am a girl. I have learned through painful struggles that the truth of who I am is not what physical gender I am,…
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If I remember correctly from my studies, there was a psychologist by the name John Money who did this nature vs nurture experiment on a child: David Reimer.
Quick recap: David was born along with his brother (twins), had problems with (possibly underdeveloped phallus), parents took David to a doctor and doctor botched the procedure. John Money stepped in, and used this botched procedure as a “experiment” to change and alter David’s sex to a female and called her Brenda. Money wanted to demonstrate that if sex can be operationally changed, the subject will eventually behave congruent with their sex and express that as their gender identity: This experiment failed as Brenda (David) felt different and wanted to play and do boy things and sports and all. Brenda was confused about her gender expression and eventually discovered why she felt that way: different.
To sum it up, nature decides the biological operative and it’s imperative as its priority over nuture.
The understandings and works of intersex based on this research is still relevant today and should be read by many to those who might feel lost or confused about their sex and gender identity.
For reference, I hold a degree in psychology: one of the fields of my studies.
RIP, David!!
Tom Laurent expressed his view by inviting us to be in the mind of a child who’s brain feels oppositional to their birth gender. The anguish and the risk of self harm as a result made evident. It is astonishing to me that manipulative politicians use kids as a way to get votes! Any philosophy, political party, or religion that attacks people for their sexual identity is heading down a dark corridor. America, especially now, needs to be a beacon of light on a planet at mortal risk and champion human rights.
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