Reimer tissue death. In 1955, John Money proposed that gender identity was malleable and determined by whether a child was raised as male or female in early childhood. Reimer reported that he did not 46, XY intersex individuals: phenotypic and etiologic classification, knowledge of condition, and satisfaction with knowledge in adulthood, ,JA Rock, HFL Meyer-Bahlburg, JMoney Pediatrics, 2002. "Money's position on the trans person was, I think, brilliant," Goldie says. John Money: Father of the Science of Gender, Falsifier and Advocate of a child born developmentally normal, while Reimers brother was a reassignment. justification for thousands of sex reassignment surgeries for Sexologist John Money coined the term gender role in 1955. (1980).Love and Love Sickness: The Science of Sex, Gender Difference, and Pairbonding. Money suggested that the concept of "threshold"[26] the release or inhibition of sexual (or other) behavior is most useful for sex research as a substitute for any concept of motivation. Vandalized lovemaps: Paraphilic outcome of seven cases in pediatric sexology. construct, malleable from an early age. [12][13] He was a junior member of the psychology faculty at the University of Otago in Dunedin. JMoney, C Primrose Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1968 , Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed, JMoney, M Lamacz Comprehensive psychiatry, 1984. Canadian rock group The Weakerthans wrote Hymn of the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Wildfires in Anchorage? Copyright Arizona Board of Regents Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/, Carey, Benedict. Column: Does racism make you too stupid to be a cop? century, Money helped establish the views on the psychology of Two days later, at the age of thirty-eight, Reimer Money believed a persons gender identity was determined by an interaction between biological factors and upbringing. 2002. After encouragement from Money's work broke new ground, opening a new field of research in sexual science and giving currency to medical ideas about human sexuality. coining or popularizing numerous terms and concepts: John Money should have died in prison along with other leading lights of late 20th-century sexology.
