Gender Identification Errors

For decades the medical profession has insisted that gender is learned rather than being part of the essence (soul, mind, persona, ?) of the individual.

However, that belief is currently being openly questioned and is show to be in error. A new book, `As Nature Made Him' written by Canadian journalist John Colapinto, tells of a botched circumcision and the resulting insistence by the doctors to change the sex of the baby from male to female, in the erroneous belief that a child's mind, even gender identity, is a blank slate. Instead of a child who was at peace with their gender, the book describes a child who grew and matured feeling wrong.

As reported in the book (see Medical Error), the result was:

``I was raised as a girl. I was not comfortable with the situation. That was not the true me,'' Reimer said.

This description is identical to how people born intersexed or transsexed feel. The essence of the individual, the part of one's soul that is our gender, knows that the identification of sex at birth by the medical profession and society is wrong.

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Revised: 10 Feb 2008 20:47:20 -0800.