Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Breaking: Gender a natural construct

Once in a while, the circumcision of a newborn male baby is fucked up. When it happened to one of the twins born to the Reimer family of Winnipeg, Canada in 1966, the parents seized on the unconventional theories of a U.S. physician. Dr. John Money believed that gender was purely a social construction, and the parents accepted his help and raised their damaged twin as a girl. Last week, the unfortunate man committed suicide.

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