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Article: Manipulating gender identity // Study suggests it is determined after birth
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 7, 1998
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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 ...