Money believed a persons gender identity was determined by an interaction between biological factors and upbringing. John Money: The Pro-Pedophile Pervert Who Invented "Gender" By Anna Slatz January 24, 2022 "Gender identity" is a hot-topic today and has become a focal point of not just social discourse, but legal policy and procedure. [40], David Reimer's case came to international attention in 1997 when he told his story to Milton Diamond, an academic sexologist, who persuaded Reimer to allow him to report the outcome in order to dissuade physicians from treating other infants similarly. As director of the Psychohormonal Research Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Money did groundbreaking research. [37], When either child resisted Money, Money would get angry. [36] In 1966, a botched circumcision left eight-month-old Reimer without a penis. or his brother resisted orders, in contrast to the calm and The sabotage of others is carried out professionally by some individuals with the syndrome of malignant bisexualism. Science has the answer[1]. In Baltimore, he lived within walking distance of the Johns Hopkins medical campus for more than 40 years. 7. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. In his studies of intersex people, Money alleged that there are six variables that define sex. Some of the latter differences apply to life activities, such as career opportunities for men versus women. For Money, the concept of threshold has great value because of the wide spectrum to which it applies. An Examination of Some Basic Sexual Concepts: The Evidence of Human Hermaphroditism. to raise Reimer as a girl. These are the people who, when young adulthood advances into midlife, begin the homosexual stage of sequential bisexuality. divorce. Retrieved27 September2014. Money's work broke new ground, opening a new field of research in sexual science and giving currency to medical ideas about human sexuality. "Money believed that without obviously male or female genitalia, the child could notfunction well socially," author Terry Goldie toldTheSunday Edition guest host Rachel Giese. "[24], Author Janet Frame attended some of Money's classes at the University of Otago, as part of her teacher's training. Science has the answer. Reimer was 15 when he learned his true identity and rejected further treatment as a girl. [24] "Bodymind" is a way for scientists, in developing a science about sexuality, to move on from the platitudes of dichotomy between nature versus nurture, innate versus the acquired, biological versus the social, and psychological versus the physiological. A California law says yes. anti-trans bias, but, according to his colleagues, was personally first name Brenda, and his parents raised him as a girl. truth about his birth and the subsequent procedures. As originally defined, gender role consists of both introspective and the extraspective manifestations of the concept. He suffered severe depression throughout his life, which culminated in his suicide at thirty-eight years old. The ensuing societal abuse and deprivation, legal and social, may be extreme. April 26, 2023. He divided components constituting an individual sexual identity as; internal and external organs, gender identity, genes, hormones, and gender roles (Warnke 89). Reimer recounted anger and verbal abuse from Money if he The desexualization of gender is in accord with the Zeitgeist of contemporary sexual politics together with victimology and an expanding criminalization of sex. Gay, straight, or lying? childhood, Reimer was never told he was biologically male and Incongruous gender role: nongenital manifestations in prepubertal boys. Hope, Law & Order, and Mental. Diamond, M; Sigmundson, HK (1997). He also worked with people who were born with normal sex organs but did not identify with the gender they had been raised to be. penis cannot retract, inhibiting regular urination. volume14,pages 279290 (1985)Cite this article. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the companys continued independence. Before, you had male animals and female animals, and that was it, said Dr. Gregory K. Lehne, an assistant professor of medical psychology at Hopkins and a protege of Money. estrogen during adolescence to promote the development of breasts. At the time, infants born with abnormal or 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. family life was strained by marital problems and employment Arch Sex Behav 14, 279290 (1985). In fact, Goldie says, Money did not really believe in two genders as an absolute. (1952).Hermaphroditism: An Inquiry into the Nature of a Human Paradox. Why is Frank McCourt really pushing this? statements about the trauma of his transition, brought attention to Summary of eleven cases and recommendations for case management", "How one of America's best medical schools started a secret transgender surgery clinic", "Dr. John Money 19212006: Hopkins pioneer in gender identity", "PM opens new wing at Eastern Southland Gallery", "A billion wicked thoughts: What the internet reveals about sexual desire", "Parent versus State: Protecting Intersex Children from Cosmetic Genital Surgery", "Health Check: The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl", "David Reimer, 38, Subject of the John/Joan Case". He was married but quickly divorced in the 1950s, and had no children. [41] Soon after, Reimer went public with his story, and John Colapinto published a widely disseminated and influential account in Rolling Stone magazine in December 1997. 97(4): 30119. took him to Money on the next annual visit. In adulthood, Reimer reported that he suffered Iatrogenic homosexuality: Gender identity in seven 46, XX chromosomal females with hyperadrenocortical hermaphroditism born with a penis, three reared as boys, JMoney, J Dalery Journal of Homosexuality, 1976, Effeminacy in prepubertal boys: Summary of eleven cases and recommendations for case management, Hermaphrodism: recommendations concerning case management, JG Hampson, JMoney The Journal of Clinical, 1956 . According to John Colapinto's biography of David Reimer, starting when Reimer and his twin Brian were six years old, Money showed the brothers pornography and forced the two to rehearse sexual acts. of his childhood conflicted with the scientific consensus about sex The violence of this new life-administering technology was crystallized in the pedagogical techniques employed by physicians designed to persuade their child patients to submit themselves to the normalizing care of surgeons and psychiatrists. (1955). IE 11 is not supported. dysphoria, a condition in which someone experiences distress as a This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 22:44. Reimers parents later blamed Moneys Homosexual gender identity and psychoneuroendocrinology. RT @SandyForLiberty: The concept of Gender was invented in 1955 by a controversial sexologist John Money from New Zealand. Money believed that gender was purely social and learned, in that he was wrong (and this is not something anyone believes today). [citation needed]. Sexual signatures: On being a man or a woman. Gender role and orientation as male or female, established while growing up. Reimer, Money, and the case Money, J. Author J MONEY PMID: 14378807 No abstract available MeSH terms Adrenal Cortex Diseases* Money participated in debates on chronophilias, especially paedophilia. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Over 10 million scientific documents at your fingertips, Not logged in According to Money, the fact that one sex produces ova and the other sex produces sperm is the irreducible criterion of sex difference. Money also made the 1. Homosexual outcome of discordant gender identity/role in childhood: Longitudinal follow-up, JMoney, AJ Russo Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 1979, Gendermaps: Social constructionism, feminism and sexosophical history, Sex errors of the body and related syndromes: A guide to counseling children, adolescents, and their families, Gender: history, theory and usage of the term in sexology and its relationship to nature/nurture, JMoney Journal of sex & marital therapy, 1985, Use of an androgendepleting hormone in the treatment of male sex offenders, JMoney Journal of Sex Research, 1970 . infants and children. The heterosexual personality has the pontificating mission of a sadistic grand inquisitor, bent on the exorcism of those possessed of homosexuality, himself included. Science has the answer, https://doi.org/10.1080/00224490309552186, https://doi.org/10.1080/00224497009550666, https://doi.org/10.1177/070674376000500214, Sex reassignment at birth. Both versions of homophobia are manifestations of malignant bisexuality that, in an interview with the journalist, Doug Ireland, for New York Magazine (July 24, 1978), I called the exorcist syndrome. reassignment surgeries on infants and children. Throughout his childhood, Reimer received annual His penis was damaged during circumcision and this animal of a doctor convinced his parents to allow doctors to perform a sex~~~~~ hf3f8e3a 992bba08-8399-4bde-ab97-c1305e64876 SSR-I18N . Money publicly dismissed his criticism as antifeminist and Request Permissions. Others have their career blown, as did the bisexual former U.S. congressman from Maryland, Robert E. Bauman, a fanatical homophobic ultraconservative of the religious new right, who subsequently published a biography of his own downfall (Bauman 1986). difficulty. Reimer was the first documented case of sex reassignment of Moneys niece, Sally Hopkins, said Sunday her uncle died of complications from Parkinsons disease. David Reimer lived a troubled life, eventually committing suicide at 38; his brother died of an overdose at age 36. least once, Money photographed those exercises. A. Money, J. In 1955, the controversial and innovative sexologist John Money first used the term "gender" in a way that we all now take for granted: to describe a human characteristic. But Money's work came decades before the recent headlines. Archived fromthe originalon 15 August 2000. Accordingly, Reimer claimed he developed a lifelong genitals, and was given female hormones during puberty. "[23], "all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively. John William Money, 84, Sexual Identity Researcher, Dies By Benedict Carey July 11, 2006 John William Money, who helped found the field of sexual identity studies, died Friday in Towson,. David. boy. He is the author or editor of several books, including Queersexlife: Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity (2008). "Gender GapWhat Following that Lehne said Money appeared to enjoy the controversy his work raised because it provoked people to think in different ways about gender. People in high places may have the power to keep under cover for a lifetime, with the homosexual manifestations of their bisexuality never exposed. Born in 1965 as Bruce Reimer, his penis was irreparably damaged during infancy due to a failed circumcision. Long-term review and clinical implications, Dr. Ehrhardt, Anke A. Much of Moneys collection now sits in a gallery in the town of Gore, New Zealand, in a wing named after him. [3] He spent a considerable amount of his career in the United States. John Money, a New Zealand psychologist with master's degrees in Psychology and Education from the University of Wellington, emigrated to the United States in 1947, studied psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and in 1952 received his doctorate from Harvard. also opened a small hole in Reimers lower abdomen for urination. He really developed that entire field of study, said Dr. Gregory K. Lehne, a Money protege and an assistant professor of medical psychology at Johns Hopkins. John Money, PhDJournal of Sex Research44.3(2007): 223224. behavior resembling sexual intercourse. The conceptual neutering of gender and the criminalization of sex. [37] At 14 years old and in extreme psychological agony, David Reimer was finally told the truth by his parents. Long-term review and clinical implications", "NZ psychologist silent on former patient", "Sex, gender, and identity over the years: a changing perspective", "Incongruous Gender Role: Nongenital Manifestations in Prepubertal Boys", The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, "Effeminacy in prepubertal boys. Money beganclinical work with people who are intersex or born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy thatdoesn't fit the typical definitions of female or male at Massachusetts GeneralHospital and Harvard Medical School. But he taught us gender is much more significant than having two sexes, Lehne said. Their internal homophobic war against their own homosexuality becomes externalized into a war against homosexuality in others. Sexologist John Money coined the term gender role in 1955. Tosh, Jemma (25 July 2014). Money, J. Long-term review and clinical implications. 1966, Reimer underwent circumcision, a common procedure in which a Hermaphroditism: Psychology & Case Management April 1, 1960https://doi.org/10.1177/070674376000500214. He was also a patron of many famous New Zealand artists, such as Rita Angus and Theo Schoon.[7]. successful sex transition. His penis was damaged during circumcision and this animal of a doctor convinced his parents to allow doctors to perform a sex~~~~~ hf3f8e3a 992bba08-8399-4bde-ab97 . observed those exercises both alone and with as many as six Through his analysis, Goldie recovers Moneys brilliance and insight from simplistic dismissals of his work due to his involvement in the tragic David Reimer case, while never losing sight of his flaws. Following their consultation with Money, Reimers parents decided Dr. John Money, a psychologist and sex researcher who coined the terms "gender identity" and "gender role" and was a pioneer in . scientific demeanor Money presented to their parents. [1][2][3] Most cultures use a gender binary, having two genders (boys/men and girls/women . The term 'gender role' was first coined by John Money in 1955 during the course of his study of intersex individuals to describe the manners in which these individuals express their status as a male or female, in a situation where no clear biological assignment exists. reproductive abnormalities. used to justify sexual reassignment surgery for children with Money was born in Morrinsville, New Zealand, to a Protestant[8] family of English and Welsh descent. but suffered irreparable damage to his penis as an infant. Archives of Sexual Behavior On 27 April and surgeries to remove his breasts and reconstruct a penis. In his seminal 1955 paper he defined these factors as:[23], and added, .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, "Patients showing various combinations and permutations of these six sexual variables may be appraised with respect to a seventh variable: underwent surgery as an infant to construct rudimentary female [4] Some of Money's "therapy" sessions involved Money forcing the two children to perform sexual activities with each other, which Money then photographed, "for research". Goldie says that Money may have failedpatients by encouraging them to conform to a binary understanding of sex andgender that he himself didn't entirely believe. Reimers brother did not Gay, straight, and in-between: The sexology of erotic orientation, Lovemaps: Clinical concepts of sexual/erotic health and pathology, paraphilia, and gender transposition in childhood, adolescence, and maturity, Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome: long-term medical, surgical, and psychosexual outcome, , GD Berkovitz, TR Brown, JMoney The Journal of, 2000 , Ablatio penis: normal male infant sex-reassigned as a girl, JMoney Archives of sexual behavior, 1975 , The concept of gender identity disorder in childhood and adolescence after 39 years, JMoney Journal of sex & marital therapy, 1994 , Ambiguous genitalia with perineoscrotal hypospadias in 46, XY individuals: long-term medical, surgical, and psychosexual outcome, , TR Brown,SJ Casella, A Maret, KM Ngai, JMoney Pediatrics, 2002, Adult erotosexual status and fetal hormonal masculinization and demasculinization: 46, XX congenital virilizing adrenal hyperplasia and 46, XY androgen-insensitivity, JMoney, M Schwartz, VG Lewis Psychoneuroendocrinology, 1984 , Apotemnophilia: two cases of selfdemand amputation as a paraphilia, JMoney, R Jobaris, G Furth Journal of Sex Research, 1977, Paraphilias: Phenomenology and classification, JMoney American journal of psychotherapy, 1984, Gender role, gender identity, core gender identity: Usage and definition of terms, JMoney Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 1973, Forensic sexology: Paraphilic serial rape (biastophilia) and lust murder (erotophonophilia), JMoney American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1990, Progestininduced hermaphroditism: IQ and psychosexual identity in a study of ten girls, AA Ehrhardt, JMoney Journal of Sex Research, 1967 . [54][55], Money held the view that affectional paedophilia is caused by a surplus of parental love that became erotic, and is not a behavioural disorder. Terry Goldie is a professor of English and social and political thought at York University. When search suggestions are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. ", Colapinto, John. Reimer says, "He told me to take my clothes off, and I just did not do it. He popularised the term paraphilia (appearing in the DSM-III, which would later replace perversions) and introduced the term sexual orientation in place of sexual preference, arguing that attraction is not necessarily a matter of free choice. The homosexual personality is the servant of transgression and a fallen angel in the legions of Lucifer. New Zealand-born Money was a pioneer in his field of sexuality and gender. John Money was a psychologist and sexologist who researched gender identity and sexual preferences and coined the terms 'gender identity' and 'gender role.' Professional Life John Money. Through a reading of mid-century sexological studies against the background of structuralfunctionalist and behaviorist theories of social order, it shows how gender was born in the clinic to discipline the reproduction of life in new ways. [42] This was later expanded into The New York Times best-selling biography As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (2000),[43] in which Colapinto described howcontrary to Money's reportswhen living as Brenda, Reimer did not identify as a girl. In 1955, the controversial and innovative sexologist John Money first used the term gender in a way that we all now take for granted: to describe a human characteristic. [1][2], Money was a professor of paediatrics and medical psychology at Johns Hopkins University from 1951 until his death. Under Hitler, there was an historical parallel when the destruction of sexology was effected by the application of the theory of social eugenics and racial purity which sexologists had endorsed. directly referenced or alluded to in the television shows Chicago regularly visited Money, who tracked the progress of his gender [48], Money argued that media response to Diamond's expos was due to right-wing media bias and "the antifeminist movement." Senator Joseph McCarthy, himself suspected of malignant bisexuality. New Zealand-American sexologist John Money, a researcher whose work in the 1950s and '60s was considered both brilliant and controversial, in many ways helped shape current attitudes around gender and sexuality. The book featured David Reimer as an example of gender reassignment. The two names are not gender-coded as male and female as they are in the two names of the tranvsvestophile, nor are the two personalities and the two wardrobes. a child born developmentally normal, while Reimers brother was a A contribution to the study of gender identity.The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 45: 220226. These differences involve the way urine is expelled from the human body and other questions of sexual dimorphism. For some the transition is to homosexual relations exclusively, whereas for others heterosexual relations also may continue. Goldie reconsiders Moneys work and influence, paying specific attention to his work on intersex, transsexuality, homosexuality, pornography, and sexual liberation. John Money 19212006: Hopkins pioneer in gender identity. Goldie says that Money didn't search for biological evidence oftransgender identity, but accepted a patient's conviction as fact. Reimers brother, who suffered from depression and A 1997 academic study criticised Money's work in many respects, particularly in regard to the involuntary sex-reassignment of the child David Reimer, and Money's abuse of Reimer and his brother when they were children. This is a maxim of widespread acceptability, not only to the self-righteous in high places of homophobic power, influence, and authority, but also to the homophobic, gay-bashing hoodlums who, as in the case with which this section began, pick up or are picked up by a gay man, have sex with him, and then exorcise their own homosexual guilt by assaulting and maybe killing him. Nowadays there is a hitherto nonexistent way of being suspected or exposed, namely by dying of AIDS. incorrectly recalled the details of his treatment. Google Scholar. Why would Bailey and friends replace in-between with lying? Money, John; Hampson, Joan G; Hampson, John (October 1955). Reimer claimed that much of Money felt that a boywithout a penis [would not be believed to be a boy].". reinforce Moneys theories on gender fluidity and provided However, it was later revealed that his most famous case of David Reimer, born Bruce Reimer, was fundamentally flawed. Elements surrounding gender roles include clothing, speech patterns, movement, occupations, and other factors not limited to biological sex. John William Money, 84, Sexual Identity Researcher, Dies., Colapinto, John. They were among the first of Hitler's victims. brothers inspect one anothers pubic areas. And that wasone of Money's big mistakes related to the Reimer case. Money advised them that with hormones and sex-change surgery, the boy could be raised as a girl. true extent of Reimers penile damage was unclear, the overwhelming The late expression of homosexuality in sequential bisexuality may be associated with recovery from illness and debilitation (e.g., recovery from alcoholism) that had masked the homosexual potential. reassignment at the time. [5][6], Money's writing has been translated into many languages and includes around 2,000 articles, books, chapters and reviews. Supported by USPH Grant #HD-00325 and Grant #83086900, The William T. Grant, Jr., Foundation. The funny thing about this is that, horrific and immoral as they were, John Money's experiments are actually evidence for the existence of gender and gender identity. The split applies not simply to heterosexuality and homosexuality, but to good and evil, licit and illicit, as well. attempted to commit suicide twice. In 1947, at the age of 26, Money emigrated to the United States to study at the Psychiatric Institute of the University of Pittsburgh. PubMed Goldie, Terry (2014). David Reimer was raised as Brenda after Money advised his parents to remove the rest of his male genitalia and recommended female hormone treatment. Money'sthinking, Goldie said, helped shape hisinfamousintervention in thecase of David Reimer, a Canadian man born biologically male but raised female afterhis penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision.
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