Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Herma, John Money
23 Feb 2014
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Intersexed and transgender individuals trans: gender identity isn"t what you were assigned with at birth. Biology of women"s studies at brown university. Revision of an essay she wrote in 1993. There needs to be at least 5 sexes. Intended the proposal to be provocative and to raise awareness. Anyone born outside the 2 genders (male and female) are considered intersexual. Represents chromosomal, anatomical and hormonal exception to dimorphic ideal. Rst 18 months identity is malleable for the rst 18 months of life. Doctors could make gender assignment based on what made the most sense surgically. Surgeons were completing natures intention through surgery. Through a circumcision there was an accident where a boy lost his penis. They were told to raise john as joan. Eventually john rejected his gender assignment and decided that he wanted to be a male not a female and ended up marrying a woman and adopted children.
