Boy or girl? : when doctors choose a child's sex

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A look at the decisions made when chromosomal abnormalities or accident leave a baby with what is known as "ambiguous genitalia." Investigates the once-accepted theory that children are born as bla...

A look at the decisions made when chromosomal abnormalities or accident leave a baby with what is known as "ambiguous genitalia." Investigates the once-accepted theory that children are born as blank slates and surgical sex assignment can determine gender. Now there is evidence that gender comes from the brain, not from the body, and that no operation can alter that fact. Describes the studies of Johns Hopkins child psychiatrist William Reiner and pioneering medical researcher Milton Diamond. Includes comments from the man known to medical literature as John/Joan, who spent his early years female and then became male.

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