Robert Winston has a series of studies on a set of children born on the millenium called "Child of Our time" aired on BBC periodically charting the childrens' development.
Here's the part on gender development. I hope ppl will find it interesting: http://www.open2.net/healtheducation/fam...pment.html
In the programme the point was made that if a child was made aware that traits they displayed were either masculine or feminine then this contributed to the construction of the psychological gender identity of the child, independently of their physical gender.
So if you predominantly display attributes that your society perceives as opposite to your physical sex, your mind could believe you to be one sex, where your physical gender is the other.
Here's the part on gender development. I hope ppl will find it interesting: http://www.open2.net/healtheducation/fam...pment.html
In the programme the point was made that if a child was made aware that traits they displayed were either masculine or feminine then this contributed to the construction of the psychological gender identity of the child, independently of their physical gender.
So if you predominantly display attributes that your society perceives as opposite to your physical sex, your mind could believe you to be one sex, where your physical gender is the other.
