by Dr. Jory F. Goodman
SEX, HORMONES & IDENTITY
Your hormones are more powerful than you think!
Published on August 11, 2010
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/attention-please/201008/sex-hormones-identityAmidst the blather and bluster of gender politics too little has been said about very real biological determinants. I shall address these below. My point, which I will get to in possibly a prolix manner is to identify the lack of understanding in the medical and psychological fields of biological/hormonal determinism in the sexuality of patients and that in many cases ambivalence, ambiguity, confusion and change have their roots in biology, not psychology or life experience.
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I will posit the following: indeed there are some boys and girls who seem to know instinctually or naturally from the earliest recollection of thoughts feelings and desires that they are homosexual.
There are also some boys and girls who seem to know early on, or after much confusion and conflict that they were born in the wrong body. Let us accept these two groups as absolute biologically pre-determined. It is another long and complicated discussion to explore genetic predetermination, in utero exposures, age of the mother and so forth. Hence I will defer that discussion.
