Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Danish doctors altered George (later Christine) Jorgensen to suit his inclinations (TIME, April 20, 1953), there have been more and more reports of physically normal males asking surgeons for similar operations. Such surgery, prohibited in the U.S., effects no sex transformation; male sex organs are merely removed, and hormones administered.* Information about these operations has been scant, but some U.S. doctors feel that surgeons abroad are prompted more by pity for their patients than by facts about their disorders...
...current A.M.A. Journal, University of California Psychiatrist Frederick G. Worden and Psychologist James T. Marsh supply some of the facts about men who confuse their sex identity. They studied a group of American men of normal male appearance (testes, beard, etc.) who sought to lose their masculinity by surgery. Finding: each of the men really thought that he was a woman who had been given a man's body by mistake...
...Worden and Marsh did not discover how physically normal males acquire a distorted perception of their sex identity.' But they conclude that "the whole problem of how human beings normally get their sense of being a male or female" is not just a physical matter but a highly complex mind-and-body process that involves the entire personality...
...Entirely different is the case of pseudohermaphrodites, whose genital organs are malformed so that they resemble those of the opposite sex; they can be helped by surgery to become normal men or women...
...Subjects who showed typical reactions were those rated "well adjusted," had few emotional or sex problems. The atypical reactors were relatively aimless, drifting types; they had suffered from demanding fathers and overprotective mothers (some had married young to find a mother-substitute), and bristled with anxiety and hostility. They were also the heaviest drinkers...