Oh sure, read up about the case of Doctor Money and the Boy With No Penis. It's a horrendous tale of criminal medical misconduct. Dr. Money is a repulsive fuc

Oh sure, read up about the case of Doctor Money and the Boy With No Penis. It's a horrendous tale of criminal medical misconduct. Dr. Money is a repulsive fuck. Rough story is that twin boys were born, parents took them to get mutilated (circumcised), it went wrong and one of the boys lost his penis. Dr. Money swoops in and says 'its OK, raise the child as a girl, everything will be great'. Everything was not great. This did not stop Dr. Money from writing books and travelling all over the world lying to other psychologists about how great the case was going. Around 11 or 12 the child attempted suicide for the first time. The parents finally gave in and told them the secret at that point. Dr. Money, when he got back from his globe-trotting, was incensed and talked them into going back on it, forcing the child to continue to live as a girl, and aggressively advocating for hormone treatments. Eventually after more unpleasantness (including, according to both the child and their brother, 'treatment sessions' during which Dr. Money forced the two to disrobe, compare anatomy, and engage in sex acts in order to 'convince' the uncertain one of their gender) the older child in late adolescence was finally able to break away from the clutches of Dr. Money and tell their story. Dr. Money was taken to court, and it was discovered doctor-patient confidentiality apparently goes both ways. He refused to produce any of the recordings of the sessions he had made even when the patients insisted. Dr. Money was mostly ruined, and I think spent some time in jail. Both of the boys killed themselves in early adulthood. There's certainly a biological component to sex. There are chromosomes, hormonal differences, morphological differences in genitalia, brain dimorphism, and several other ways in which things can go. And they can generally be mixed and matched any which-way. I've never understood why people who don't actually have an interest in human biology want to demand a simple picture. If they want a simple picture, there is the simplest one available: Let people do what they want. Don't let it bother you. End of story. If you want to get into human biology, dive right in! It's amazingly complex and will surprise you at every turn! Everything you think is 'this is always how it is' goes wrong at some point, and we've seen most of it! (Speaking of which if anyone knows any case studies involving a person with no working mirror neurons, I'm interested.)