Nature Vs. Nurture Sex-Change Experiment Leads to Double Suicides

This story is sad and sick on a lot of levels.

There would seem to be a political point to be made here -- with a "missionary of sex" named Dr. Money performing sex-change operations on children in order to prove that sex is entirely conditioned by society -- but that would seem too easy, and too trivial for the horrors recounted here.

In the children's grimmest recollection - one they found almost impossible to talk about years later - Money allegedly made "Brenda assume a position on all fours on his office sofa and make Brian come up behind her on his knees and place his crotch against her buttocks", an element of Money's theory he referred to as "sexual rehearsal play". (The author John Heidenry, who wrote a recent review defending the sexologist, calls this charge "outrageous and offensive", and says Brian, the source of the claim, may have been suffering false memory syndrome.)

That would be Brian, the brother, putting his crotch against Brenda, the sister's, ass.

And Brenda would be the boy who was formerly David.

posted by Ace at 01:51 AM

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