Originally Posted by Gilda

There was an interesting case supporting the thoery that gender identity is fixed in the brain at birth, and not derived from socialization or hormones post-natal or at puberty. A pair of male identical twins were born, and there was an accident during circumcision that resulted in one having most of his penis accidently amputated. A doctor promoting the theory that gender identity is entirely socialized advised the parents to raise the child as a girl. They listened, and the remains of the penis were removed, female genitals constructed, and the child was raised as a girl. The parents were advised to overdo it, to dress him and socialize him in very feminine ways to emphasize her new sex. The doctor was essentially using the children as an experiment in socialization, which I find absolutely vile.

In any case, David rejecting the attempted programming at every turn, hating dresses and dolls and wanting to be more like his brother. Even at puberty, when he was given female hormones, he consistently felt as if there were something wrong with him and tried to reject the female programming that his parents and Dr. Quack tried to force on him. When it was revealed to him what was going on, he immediately took on a male persona, but it was too late, and a couple of years later comitted suicide. Short of having ovaries and a uterus, he had a female body in terms of physical structure and blood chemistry, yet his male brain still told him this was all wrong.

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