EDJ said:
HOW CAN AN 18 MONTH OLD BABY KNOW IF THEY LIKE DIK OR PUSSY WHEN THEY CAN'T EVEN WALK OR BARELY TALK? THEY DON'T. IN LIFE YOU LEARN AND DECIDE TO INDULgE IN WHATEVA YOUR THOUgHT PROCESS CROSSES. SOME PEOPLE MARINATE ON THE THOUgHT AND THEN DECIDE TO PARTAKE IN THE SHIT.
Psychosocially, this has been proven wrong on several levels. There was actually a case study in an exact instance that proved this...
Dude got his dick surgically chopped off at birth. His parents decided it would be best to surgically reconstruct a vagina and give him estrogen so he would grow breasts, etc.
He was placed in dresses and encouraged to play with dolls. His parents encouraged female behavior at every turn, but you can guess what happened. Here is a brief summary of the case study.
" John (pseudonym) is an XY individual born an identical twin in the suburb of a large metropolitan city. During a phimosis repair by cautery at eight months of age, his penis was accidentally burned beyond repair. On the advice of consultants, considering the beliefs of the time--that individuals are psychosexually neutral at birth--the child was from then on treated as a girl and, at the age of 17 months, surgically reassigned to be unambiguously raised as a female. Orchiectomy and "vulva" reconstruction were started with further surgery to wait until Joan (pseudonym) was older. All professionals associated with Joan's treatment, as did the parents and family, reinforced her feminine identity. Basically they treated Joan as a girl, preparing her for future vaginal reconstructive surgery and life as a woman. The broad history of this case has been reported (Diamond, 1982, 1993, 1994; Money, 1975; Money & Ehrhardt, 1972; Money & Tucker, 1975). Details too are available (Diamond & Sigmundson, 1997).
Despite Joan's rearing, from early on, she did not feel to be a girl, preferred association with boys, and pursued typical boys' activities and interests. Joan shunned female-typical activities and interests. Male predilections persisted until the age of 14, when Joan dramatically rebelled at living as a girl. This was despite orchiectomy and estrogen therapy, which led to breast development and rounded hips. To be forced to continue as a girl prompted Joan seriously to contemplate suicide. Without knowing her history, Joan, at age 14, revealed to her endocrinologist, from whom she had been receiving estrogens since age 12, "I suspected I was a boy since the second grade." A brief period followed, during which Joan, the clinical team involved in her management, and then her family discussed Joan's desire to live as the male she felt she was. When she switched to living as John, learning the truth of his history basically came as a welcome relief, as it essentially confirmed what he had believed all along. He immediately and happily recast his life. John subsequently requested and received a mastectomy and then phalloplasty and without hesitation lived and was accepted as a male.
After John transitioned to living as a boy, his interest in girls was quickly evident. He rapidly sought female erotic company. Although he had overtures from boys and men while living as a girl, and afterward while living as a male, he always rejected them. John was not homophobic but definitely gynecophilic.
After John switched to living as a male, his parents developed a great deal of guilt for their participation in the original sex reassignment. They and John have, however, reconciled. At the age of 25 he married a woman several years his senior and adopted her children (Table 1). "