[armymarinemom]

Yeah but what environment where they raised in? Did the parents themselves doubt their own child's sexuality? Some children have amazing outlooks on life in spite of insurmountable physical difficulties and a lot of times it comes from the way the family presents life itself to the child.

[Dianna]

Yeah but what environment where they raised in? Did the parents themselves doubt their own child's sexuality? Some children have amazing outlooks on life in spite of insurmountable physical difficulties and a lot of times it comes from the way the family presents life itself to the child.

I simply don't believe that environment is a major determinant of gender. A disabled child might grow up pessimistic, but I can't really believe that my parents could have convinced me I was male simply by thinking it was so and acting as though it was.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You really need to read the book, "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl"

Davids story is a bit different as he was born a boy but the doctor botched his circumcision.

The doctors then persuaded his parents to let them operate again and that if they just raised him as a girl then he would become a girl. Dr. Money was the therapist in the case and you learn some of the really criminal things he did in order to make this poor kid fit into his idea that gender could be assigned.