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Boy or Girl? When Doctors Choose a Child’s Sex

What is to be done when chromosomal abnormalities or an accident leave a baby with what is known as "ambiguous genitalia"? In this program, ABC News correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman investigates the once-accepted belief that surgical sex assignment would determine gender in such cases. The studies of Johns Hopkins child psychiatrist William Reiner and pioneering medical researcher Milton Diamond—plus testimony from the man known to medical literature as John/Joan—argue that gender comes from the brain, not the body, and that no operation can alter that basic fact. Some content may be objectionable. (15 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10005
Copyright date: ©1998
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-8320-0


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