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John Money, Ph.D. 1921-2006
Jul. 12th, 2006 08:49 amI'm posting this for the benefit of those not on a trans community where this was announced. Please excuse the erroneous history in the article. Unfortunately, mutilation of intersex people's genitals had begun prior to World War II. (note: I don't see the ambiguity in the genitals someone was born with but hey...) People/cultures from around the world had far more "ground breaking" notions around gender and the roles of nature and nurture CENTURIES ahead of John but... if you're not white of European decent it doesn't count, right? *sigh*
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.money09jul09,0,7145990.story?page=1&coll=bal-local-headlines
Dr. John Money, one of the nation's pre-eminent sex researchers who pioneered the study of gender identity and helped establish Johns Hopkins as the first hospital in the country to perform adult sex-change operations, died Friday. He was 84.
The controversial scholar, who coined the term "gender role," died a day before his 85th birthday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson of complications from Parkinson's disease, which he had battled for several years.
Dr. Money did groundbreaking research as director of the Psychohormonal Research Unit at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. He developed hormonal treatment to improve self-control of sex offenders and dedicated research to the virtually unexplored topic of infants born with ambiguous sex organs. ( Read more... )
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.money09jul09,0,7145990.story?page=1&coll=bal-local-headlines
Dr. John Money, one of the nation's pre-eminent sex researchers who pioneered the study of gender identity and helped establish Johns Hopkins as the first hospital in the country to perform adult sex-change operations, died Friday. He was 84.
The controversial scholar, who coined the term "gender role," died a day before his 85th birthday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson of complications from Parkinson's disease, which he had battled for several years.
Dr. Money did groundbreaking research as director of the Psychohormonal Research Unit at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. He developed hormonal treatment to improve self-control of sex offenders and dedicated research to the virtually unexplored topic of infants born with ambiguous sex organs. ( Read more... )
