Not quite another Piece of the Puzzle - Yet
A.E. Brain
By Zoe Brain
July 27, 2009
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-quite-another-piece-of-puzzle-yet.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-quite-another-piece-of-puzzle-yet.html)
Two comments by Prof Italiano over at Theosophical Ruminations:
Dear Zoe, You mentioned the study by Cohen-Kettenis on 5 Alpha Reductase 2 deficiency and 17 Beta HSD 3 deficiency. I might add that this study was in the infamous ASB journal and Cohen-Kettenis seems to be adversely influenced by some of those people. For instance, she noted that some individuals develop a male gender identity and some develop a female gender identity in each of the two conditions and that this is independent of the severity of the mutation. She cites the noted endocrinologist Jean D. Wilson and his research on this. She then goes on to attribute the difference in the gender outcomes which are independent of the severity of the mutation to social factors, while completely OMITTING that Dr. Wilson suggested that the difference in gender identity outcomes which are independent of the severity of the mutation, are the result of variations in the compensation of alternative enzymatic pathways.