PSYB64H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Testis Determining Factor, Anterior Pituitary, Pituitary Gland
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Bruce reimer was circumcised as a child. But his penis was damaged so badly, it was suggested that he be raised as a girl. He became brenda and developed into a normal female. Even though he was having female hormone therapy, he had suspicions that he was a boy and found out his medical history. Chose to live as a man (named david) and married and women and adopted her kids. This story suggests that our biological sex may influence our ultimate sense of being a man or a woman more strongly than how we are raised. Aristotle sex of a child was the result of the temp. of semen at the time of conception: hot semen males, cold semen females. Today individual"s genetic sex begins with sex chromosomes inherited from two parents: mother provides x to all offspring. Father provide x for females, or y for males (determines the sex)
