Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!perelgut From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) Newsgroups: net.med,net.singles,net.women,net.motss Subject: Re: Developmental Psychology: Gender vs Sex: Independence from Choice of Mate Message-ID: <4844@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 08:29:50 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4844 Posted: Mon Jul 9 08:29:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jul-84 15:54:34 EDT References: <1326@sun.uucp> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 25 The parent article to this was very well written and the author should be commended for rising far above the norm for the network. There was only one point I take exception to. The author states that sex is physical and gender is mental and determined at 1.5-2 years of age. OK so far. However, the following statement says that psychs acknowledge gender cannot be changed so, when sex and gender differ, sex is the one to switch. 20 years ago the answer would have been that doctors acknowledge sex cannot change and therefor the confused subject just suffers. 20 years from now gender will be as easily changed as sex. One last point, sex change operations met with resistance from the straight community (especially the traditional RC church). Gender change psychological research seems to meet with more direct oppostion from homosexual camps since it is viewed as a threat to them. -- Stephen Perelgut Computer Systems Research Institute University of Toronto Usenet: {linus, ihnp4, allegra, decvax, floyd}!utcsrgv!perelgut CSNET: perelgut@Toronto