VHS: Sex: Unknown (Nova)

VHS: Sex: Unknown (Nova) | Will Lyman

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Sex: Unknown (Nova)

	Sex: Unknown (Nova) Will Lyman WGBH, 2001 view larger image
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Many babies are born intersex with genitals that did not fully develop in the womb. In such situations, most doctors declare a state of medical emergency, and quickly move to operate in an effort to "fix" the child and give it the appearance of either a male or female. But this intervention is not always welcome: Many intersex adults that were surgically changed in infancy now insist they should have been given a choice in the matter. In many cases the gender they were assigned at birth does not match the gender they grew to believe they were. This begs a larger question: How much of our gender identity is formed by nature and how much by nurture? "Sex: Unknown" delves into the complex world of gender identity. It explores one story in particular, Bruce Reimer, whose genitals were destroyed in an accident, and whose parents were convinced by researched John Money to raise him/ surgically transform him into a girl. (Companion book also available-- As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, by John Colapinto)

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