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Matter-eater Man said:
Pariah not sure what your reading into the article but I thought it essentially presented a case where a man was switched to female at a very young age. Even with all the right parts & raised as a female, he rejected the fake gender. It suggests to me that sexual gender is less choice but something deeper. Not quite the same thing as sexual orientation but I see many similarities. Nobody I know, woke up and decided they were going to be gay or straight. Sexual orientation seems to be just there.



We actually studied that case in my sociology class, going over barbara Risman's book "Gender Vertigo: Families in Transition". There was one particular section that I think provides a lot of insight into what exactly makes gender, and how sex and gender are often a lot different than one might think. I wish I could find it online.

MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.