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| - | {{Template}} | + | {{Template}}'''John William Money''' ([[8 July]] [[1921]] – [[7 July]], [[2006]]) was a [[Psychology|psychologist]] and [[Sexology|sexologist]] well-known for his research into [[sexual identity]] and [[biology of gender]]. Money identified several influential concepts and terms during his career, including [[gender identity]], [[gender role]], [[gender-identity/role]], and [[lovemap]]. He was awarded in the [[Magnus Hirschfeld Medal]] in [[2002]] from the "[[German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research]]". |
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| + | Money was a [[professor]] of [[pediatrics]] and [[medical psychology]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] from 1951 until his death. While there Money was involved with the Sexual Behaviors Unit, which ran studies on [[sex reassignment surgery]]. | ||
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| + | Money is best-known for his involvement in the [[sex reassignment]] of [[John Money#David Reimer|David Reimer]], in what later became known as the "John/Joan" case. Money reported that he successfully reassigned Reimer as [[female]] after a botched 1966 infant [[circumcision]]. In [[1997]], [[Milton Diamond]] reported that the reassignment had failed, that Reimer had never identified as female or behaved typically feminine. At age 14, Reimer refused to see Money again, threatening suicide if he were made to go. Reimer began living as male, and at 15, with a different medical team, he sought a [[mastectomy]], [[testosterone]] therapy and a [[phalloplasty]]. Later he married a woman who had children from a previous marriage and lived as a man until his [[suicide]] at age 38. | ||
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Money was a professor of pediatrics and medical psychology at Johns Hopkins University from 1951 until his death. While there Money was involved with the Sexual Behaviors Unit, which ran studies on sex reassignment surgery.
Money is best-known for his involvement in the sex reassignment of David Reimer, in what later became known as the "John/Joan" case. Money reported that he successfully reassigned Reimer as female after a botched 1966 infant circumcision. In 1997, Milton Diamond reported that the reassignment had failed, that Reimer had never identified as female or behaved typically feminine. At age 14, Reimer refused to see Money again, threatening suicide if he were made to go. Reimer began living as male, and at 15, with a different medical team, he sought a mastectomy, testosterone therapy and a phalloplasty. Later he married a woman who had children from a previous marriage and lived as a man until his suicide at age 38.
