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From “Following the Push of Nature” to “Restoring One's Proper Sex”---Cortisone and Sex at Johns Hopkins's Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic (2012)

Eder, Sandra (Author)

Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Volume: 36, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 69-76

DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2011.11.003

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Androgyny; hermaphroditism Psychology Children Sex hormones Gender identity Endocrinology Child development 20th century, late Wilkins, Lawson Money, John Johns Hopkins Hospital

In 1955, a paradigm shift in the conception of sex is said to have taken place, when psychologist John Money at Johns Hopkins's Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic argued that `hermaphroditic' children could be assigned a sex contradictory to their biological sex. Rather than being born male or female, he claimed, these children learned to be boys or girls. Money was subsequently credited the invention of the term gender role. However, Money only confirmed a practice that was established at the clinic several years before his intervention. The clinic's director Lawson Wilkins (1894--1963) had already recommended that certain children, virilized by congenital adrenal hyperplasia, should be raised in the male sex, even though they were by all medical standards of the time female. What mattered for him was assigning the sex that seemed `better' for these children. What constituted the `better sex' was contingent on the child's psyche and habitus, social expectations, and on the range of medical and surgical interventions available at the time.

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