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Treatment of Wrongly Assigned Sex

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By Charles N. Armstrong, 1966

The purpose of this paper is to rebut the assertion that reassignment or change of sex necessarily constitutes an extreme psychological hazard for individuals who have been assigned to the wrong sex at birth. Some doubt will also be thrown on the claim that psychological sex—normal or abnormal-develops entirely as a consequence of environmental psychological experience, like learning a language, and is neither innate nor influenced by hormones.

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