Journal # 16: Gender Identity

In the 46 minute BBC Horizon video of "Dr. Money and The Boy with No Penis" the story revolves around a young boy named Bruce Rhymer who was born to seem like a completely normal boy with a twin brother named Brian. When the boys were only a few months old they went for a commen circumcision. However something went wrong. This annual percedure that ussually would be done with a knife was done with a machine. The machine malfunctioned and it burned Bruce's penis off. The family begun to see a psychologist who convinced the family that is may be better to just simply raise the boy as a girl. Once thae family comited to the decision their psychologist, Dr.Money, warned the family that they must never tell their children of Bruce's true gender. For it may completly screw up his processing revolved with his gender idenity: The psychological senese of maleness or femaleness. As the child grew older Bruce, or as she changed her name to Brenda. Began to act more like a tom boy. Going against her gender Roles: The cultural expectations imposed on men and women to behave in ways deemed appropriate for thier gender. Although she still had the gender of a boy just prottraying himself as the opposite sex which if defined through gender expression: The way a person protrays themselve through a specific gender. Through clothing, communication patterns and interests. Which does not always agree with thier gender roles. Although Brenda was originally a boy , then later turned into a girl. She still had the sex of a boy. As she grew up she began to go against her gender roles which caused for some confussion and when Dr.Money tried convincing her to have a sex change the conversation was pointless, she felt very uncomfortable and would not go along with the procedure. She continued to go on as a girl until her parents felt the need to tell Brenda and her twin brother that she was not originally born a girl and what had happened when she was very young. Her brother acted out in hatred for i belive it was because he was no longer the only boy. Brernda went into shock and they both ended up commiting suicide due to the drastic event sto happen to and around them. Dr. Money's expierement was very unworking and only hurt the studie and their family.

Sex: A person’s biological status Classified as a male, female, or intersex

Gender: The state of maleness or femaleness

Gender Roles: The cultural expectations imposed on men and women to behave in ways deemed appropriate for thier gender

Gender idenity: The psychological senese of maleness or femaleness

Gender expression: The way a person protrays themselve through a specific gender. Through clothing, communication patterns and interests. Does not always agree with thier gender roles

Sexual orientation: The sex in which a person is attracted to

Coming Out: Is the porocess of when someone reveals their sexual orientation to the world

Intersex: the abnormal condition of being intermediate between male and female; hermaphroditism