The video was an assignment for my Psychology class because it is Human Sexuality week. So far, we've discussed the difference between gender and sex, gender roles, intersexuals, the various degrees of transsexuals, and the roles of nature versus nurture in determining sex and gender. Tomorrow, we are going to be talking about sexual orientation.
It's all horrendously fascinating. But, unfortunately, just as confusing. And not confusing in the way that it's hard to understand intellectually or factually.
No, it's confusing morally and emotionally and spiritually.
But according to my Psych professor, being confused is a sign of excellent critical thinking because you're not simplifying everything.
I had been kind of worried about this week in Psych class, actually. But I've found that in a classroom setting - a learning environment that's away from my own life and experience - I can think and learn and study this topic of human sexuality without too much trouble or obstructive confusion.
Anyway, the documentary:
After a terrible accident at infancy, Bruce's parents - along with the advice of John Money (a psychologist) - decide to raise him as a girl. All the necessary procedures were completed and at 22 months, Bruce became Brenda. In public, this "change" was considered a success; but, Brenda was never happy as a girl. At age 14, her parents revealed what her sex at birth was and she decided to resume living as a male. She became David. He lived as a male for the rest of his life... married, had a family (although he was unable to father any children)... But the event had a lasting effect on his life. David committed suicide in 2004.
I barely know what to think after all of that.
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