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  During the late 20th century, a medical scandal took place, wherein XY males without Disorders of Sexual Development were surgically reassigned female. The most famous of these cases is David Reimer, who was erroneously reported as a "successful" case by John Money, until Milton Diamond and John Colapinto later revealed he had refused to be reassigned female. In the end, Reimer tragically committed suicide. There are harrowing parallels between this scandal and the modern scandal of "transgender children" (child sex changes). However, conservative media has taken it a step further by comparing it to the transition of adults. Does David Reimer prove that transsexuality is a sham? Nature vs. Nurture : Revisited To make sense these debates, one must contrast three theories about sex (male or female) and gender (masculine or feminine) when it comes to the sexual differentiation of the brain: Conservative:  Although they do not believe in "gender", conservat...

  One of the most intriguing findings to come out of sex research is that female sexual responses are usually gender-nonspecific , while males sexual responses are gender-specific . The strongest evidence that this sex difference is not due to sociocultural influence comes from " the near-perfect quasi-experiment ": XY males without Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD) who were raised as females. During the second half of the 20th Century, a medical scandal took place, where XY males with "inadequate" penises were surgically reassigned female. This includes boys who lost their penises in an accident (penile ablation), and those born with penile agenesis (aphallia), cloacal exstrophy, or classical exstrophy. The most famous of these cases is the patient of John Money, David Reimer. Initially reported as a "successful" reassignment to female, it later came out that he rejected being reassigned female, had reclaimed a male identity, and eventually committed ...

"What is Sexual Orientation and Do Women Have One?" (Bailey, 2009) In "What is sexual orientation and do women have one?", Michael Bailey (2009) described  sexual orientation  as "a mechanism, analogous to a compass, that directs our sexuality", noting the following sex difference:  "Men, but not women, have a category specific sexual arousal pattern, one that is usually directed much more strongly to members of one sex than to those of the other. For example, almost all men who identify as homosexual are more sexually aroused by men than by women. In contrast,  the arousal pattern of heterosexual women tends to be bisexual , and thus irrelevant to most women’s partner choices. That is, women who identify them selves as heterosexual tend to be similarly aroused by male and female sexual stimuli. The  category specific male sexual arousal pattern is the primary sexual motivation that directs male sexual activity to certain kinds of individuals (most of...

In " The specificity of women's sexual response and its relationship with sexual orientations ", Meredith Chivers ( 2016 ) proposed the following ten hypotheses as potential explanations for the gender-nonspecific  sexual responses of androphilic  women: [H1] Erotic plasticity : Women are more sexually malleable than men. [H2]  Preparation hypothesis:  Unlike in men, women's bodies automatically respond to any sexual stimulus, in order to protect the vaginal lumen from unwanted sex [H3]  Sexual objectification of women's bodies : The eroticization of women's bodies in popular media causes all women to develop same-sex sexual attraction [H4]  Identification with sexual pleasure:  Heterosexual women are turned on by lesbian porn, not because they are attracted to other women, but because they identify with the women shown on screen. [H5]  Fertility-dependent change in specificity of sexual response : Women's sexual response towards men varies with h...