It does saying "acting like" anything. It says "identifying as"
Rod
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> Rod posted:
>
> >Saturday May 13 1:02 AM ET
>
> >Study Questions 'Sex Reassignment'
>
> >By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer
>
> >BALTIMORE (AP) - The practice of surgically ``reassigning'' boys born
> >without penises is
> >being called into question by a new study that suggests gender identity
> >is determined in the
> >womb.
>
> >Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Hospital on Friday said the study
> >found that such boys,
> >raised as girls, had masculine behavior and most declared themselves to
> >be boys.
>
> actually, this is falsified by other studies. Many studies prove that
> there is no necessary relationship between your biological identity and
> gender identity. If you are born with a penis, you may develop a different
> identity through time, so you don't need to be born without a penis to
> see how you develop a masculine identity. In so far as the above study is
> concerned,I would still look at the social environment of male
> participants. boys may be raised as girls, but do the researchers look at
> the non-familial enviromental factors such as schooling, friends,
> media,etc.? The boys may have learnt masculine behaviour from other
> external sources, which could have become dominant through time, as to
> contradict family socialization. this has nothing to do with their
> hormones, but something to do with the contradictions between two forms of
> socialization (family versus outside family)..we should not underestimate
> the external factors. Many children, grown with, let's say, egalitarian
> values at home and see parents sharing household responsibilities equally,
> may become patriarchal later due to their socialization into external
> forms of masculinist social practices..
>
> It is also true the reverse case. Many women are grown up with
> social values that contradict the conventional female wisdom. Some
> parents, but still few, choose not to give their daughters dolls or son
> gun toys, or even not vice versa (which . Another big example is
> mothering. Vulgar biological determinists relate mothering to women's
> biological and emotional predisposition. It has been found out that men
> can mother as adequately as women since mothering is a social function,
> not a biological one. There are many men around who raise children. There
> are also many women around who don't prefer mothering... Acting "like a
> man or a woman" is a socially learnt behavior designed to fit the
> ideological constructions of gender.
>
> Mine
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