![]() ![]() ![]() David never adjusted to a female gender identity. His great case-the twin David Reimer-was later proved a fraud. He used the tragedy of birth defects which make it difficult to determine sex (disorders of sexual development-DSD) as an example of how sex could be differ from “gender.” He promoted the idea that a child who was genetically male, but had genital deformities could be surgically altered to appear female and be successfully raised as a girl. In Greek, nouns and adjectives are masculine, feminine, or neuter.Ĭontroversial sexologist John Money introduced the idea that sex was composed of a number of factors, including genitals, hormones, orientation, and identity. It is interesting to note that Hebrew, the language chosen by God to first reveal himself, is a highly gendered language, every noun, pronoun, adjective, article, and even verbs in the 2nd and 3rd persons singular and plural are either masculine or feminine (there is no neuter). ![]() ![]() Originally, “sex” was an inclusive term, which referred not only to the biological reality of male and female, but to everything it meant to be a man and a woman. For many years now, I have pondered the use of the word “gender.” Before I began my work on same-sex attraction and wrote the book One Man, One Woman, I spent 9 years studying “gender” and wrote a book on the subject ( The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality ). ![]()
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