Article: Manipulating gender identity // Study suggests it is determined after birth

A Canadian boy who was raised as a girl after his penis was irreparably damaged during circumcision continues to live as a woman, suggesting that a person's gender identity develops after birth, researchers say.

A study, released Monday in the July issue of the medical journal Pediatrics, contradicts findings in the only other documented case, in which the other boy returned to life as a man.

"When you think about the fact that this person was an entirely normal biological male prior to the circumcision accident, this case may shed some insight on how malleable someone's gender identity is," said Kenneth Zucker, one of the study's authors and a researcher with the Clarke Institute of ...

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