PSYCH 2810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ice Cream Cone, Plastic Surgery
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A brief history of the psychology of gender. The psychologist (dr. money) was announcing his success while brenda was behaving in a very masculine manner: playing with boy toys, hitting and kicking, bruce always felt uncomfortable as a girl. The questions the twins were asked during the study were very sexual, focusing on genitalia to determine gender: to help brenda understand, he showed her pictures of child births and baby genitalia. He tried to convince brenda to have plastic surgery to construct a vagina: he (bruce) remembers thinking that he was healthy, so why would he go through surgery. Distinct feeling that it was wrong: when she approached 13, dr. money made her sit down with a transsexual to try to convince her to have the surgery, which she was still against. He forced the twins to undress and compare their genitals.
