John Moneys theory of psychosexual gender neutrality. John Money believed that a person can be raised as any gender under the right circumstances and he would stop at nothing to prove his theory. During a long and extensive experiment to prove that you can raise a child to be any gender that you choose John Money ran into many obstacles. His perfect candidate was identifying more with male than female. Joan as she was called in the article did not feel like a girl, she wanted to play with “boy” toys and she didn’t want to wear dresses. The question at hand is why did she identify more with male than female if John Money’s theory was right because she was simply told she was a girl and was raised as a girl she should feel and act like a
John Moneys theory of psychosexual gender neutrality. John Money believed that a person can be raised as any gender under the right circumstances and he would stop at nothing to prove his theory. During a long and extensive experiment to prove that you can raise a child to be any gender that you choose John Money ran into many obstacles. His perfect candidate was identifying more with male than female. Joan as she was called in the article did not feel like a girl, she wanted to play with “boy” toys and she didn’t want to wear dresses. The question at hand is why did she identify more with male than female if John Money’s theory was right because she was simply told she was a girl and was raised as a girl she should feel and act like a