In arguably one of the most notable case studies in psychology history, the case of David Reimer tried to answer questions on gender identity and overrule nurture over nature in development of sex differences. However, this case highlighted the blunders of the science and medical community with the individual living a majority of his life in psychology stress. Once he found out what occurred to him when he was younger, as he put it, he realized he wasn’t crazy for how he was feeling. It could be said that these were one of the cases that set up the theories and hypothesis we now have on gender identity and the dimorphic differences we witness in the sexes. Our history is abundant with unethical studies that have happened, such as the Stanford
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Indeed, this was a major theory endorsed by John Money. With the lack of rsearch on the topic, this case study was used as a trial for the theory, with David being born a male, but external male genitial being removed and an attempt to being raised as a female, in terms acting in a more female manner and during adolescent taking female hormones to endues the conversion. Howeverr, we now know this wasn’t the proper way to go about the issue of an invidual sans a penis. The answer of simply converting him to a female was a controversial one as the inidvudla displayed many problems during his transition, until he converted back to being a male. The issue stems from the biological changes that occurred even in the womb that differs from that of a biological female. The organization-activation theory is important to note because prenatally, testerone acts directly on cells to induce male development, such as the sex determing region on the Y chromosome which contain the testis determing factor. David was biologically a male and developed testes and had this added testerone even before he was born. A female on the other hand, just lacks testerone and automatically develops female reproductive organs. With the testerone in utero, the Wolffian ducts normally
Indeed, this was a major theory endorsed by John Money. With the lack of rsearch on the topic, this case study was used as a trial for the theory, with David being born a male, but external male genitial being removed and an attempt to being raised as a female, in terms acting in a more female manner and during adolescent taking female hormones to endues the conversion. Howeverr, we now know this wasn’t the proper way to go about the issue of an invidual sans a penis. The answer of simply converting him to a female was a controversial one as the inidvudla displayed many problems during his transition, until he converted back to being a male. The issue stems from the biological changes that occurred even in the womb that differs from that of a biological female. The organization-activation theory is important to note because prenatally, testerone acts directly on cells to induce male development, such as the sex determing region on the Y chromosome which contain the testis determing factor. David was biologically a male and developed testes and had this added testerone even before he was born. A female on the other hand, just lacks testerone and automatically develops female reproductive organs. With the testerone in utero, the Wolffian ducts normally