The Boy who was Turned into a Girl
BBC2 9.00pm Thursday 7th December 2000

Books:

Sexing the Body
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Basic Books, 2000.
A historian of science, Fausto-Sterling discusses the futility of the nature/nurture debate of sexually versus socially constructed gender. She is very critical about assigning gender simply into male and female, instead stressing that these are two extremes of a continuum.

Sex on the Brain
Deborah Blum, Penguin Books, 1997.
Blum retells the quest of scientists to prove that male and female characteristics are not social constructs but that there is a strong bias for our gender-typical behaviour. She recounts the experiments and the observations made to disprove the behaviourist's attitude of gender being purely environmentally determined.


Web-links:

ww2.med.jhu.edu/pedendo/intersex/
www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0900web/babes.html
The Johns Hopkins University website has pages devoted to abnormal sex differentiation, as well as more about David Reimer's story.

Support groups:

www.climb.org.uk
Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Disorders.
www.medhelp.org/www/ais
The Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group.
www.isna.org
Intersex Society of North America.