John Money
New Zealand-US psychologist and sexologist (1921–2006)
John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for his research on human sexual behavior and gender. Money researched paraphilia, including pedophilia, and pioneered the use of drug treatment to extinguish the libido of sex offenders. He advanced the use of new terminology in sex research, coining the terms gender role and sexual orientation. Despite popular belief, Money did not coin the term gender identity.
Money was a proponent of genital surgeries for children with intersex conditions, based on his belief gender was malleable during the first two years of life and it was harmful to raise children as neither boys nor girls. The practice proved controversial when many intersex people later rejected the gender assigned to them. Money also applied the protocol to David Reimer, who lost his penis in a botched circumcision, and advised his parents to raise him as a girl. Reimer struggled to adapt, feeling confused and exhibiting masculine behavior in childhood, and reverted to living as a male as a teenager when he became aware of the treatment. He died by suicide at age 38 following his twin brother's suicide, separation from his wife and financial stress.
Money believed transgender people had an idée fixe, and established the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic in 1965.
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