Vol 27, number 1, January-June As a UH professor of anatomy and reproductive biology, Milton Diamond teaches neuroanatomy and sexology. But his international notoriety resulted from what he calls a simple search for evidence. Burns School of Medicine. Diamond and his wife thought the islands would be a good place to raise their four daughters. The s case involved a 7-month-old twin whose penis was severely burned by the electrocautery instrument used during circumcision.
The child underwent surgery to remove his testes and fashion female genitals. His parents were instructed to raise him unambiguously as a girl. Surgical reassignment of sex for a variety of reasons, including cases where the penis was considered too small less than 2. Diamond kept digging. Unaware of her history; Joan had refused to wear dresses, hated make-up and fought like a boy. At 14, she decided to live as a male.
In they presented their evidence in an article on implications of sex reassignment in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. This time the medical establishment listened. Diamond addressed the American Academy of Pediatrics. Instead, 30 seconds of stunned silence gave way to applause. Diamond says as many as pediatric sex reassignments were taking place annually in the United States due to damaged or ambiguous genitals.
One in every has hidden ambiguityβXXY or other sets of chromosomes or combinations of ovaries and testes. People could deal with the truth if told in the proper way and provided with counseling. He served as president of the International Academy of Sex Research, which encompasses physicians, psychologists, sociologists and other scientists. This page was last updated on April 16, For any problems related to this web site, e-mail the webmistress at mockford hawaii.
