1. John Money is generally viewed as a negative figure by the transgender community.
37 Facts About John Money
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John Money's writing has been translated into many languages and includes around 2,000 articles, books, chapters and reviews.
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John Money received around 65 honors, awards and degrees in his lifetime.
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John Money was born in Morrinsville, New Zealand, to a Christian fundamentalist family of English and Welsh descent.
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John Money's parents were members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
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John Money attended Hutt Valley High School and initially studied psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a double master's degree in psychology and education in 1944.
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John Money was a junior member of the psychology faculty at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
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In October 1945, after Frame wrote an essay mentioning her thoughts of suicide, John Money convinced Frame to enter the psychiatric ward at Dunedin Hospital, where she was misdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.
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In 1947, at the age of 26, John Money emigrated to the United States to study at the Psychiatric Institute of the University of Pittsburgh.
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John Money left Pittsburgh and earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1952.
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John Money proposed and developed several theories related to the topics of gender identity and gender roles, and coined terms like gender role and lovemap.
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John Money was reassigned to be raised as female and his name changed from Bruce to Brenda.
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John Money further recommended hormone treatment, to which the parents agreed.
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John Money then recommended a surgical procedure to create an artificial vagina, which the parents refused.
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John Money published a number of papers reporting the reassignment as successful.
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On "at least one occasion" John Money took a photograph of the two children performing these acts.
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John Money forced the two children to strip for "genital inspections"; when they resisted inspecting each other's genitals, John Money got very aggressive.
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John Money chose to begin calling himself David, and he underwent surgical procedures to revert the female bodily modifications.
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John Money was ostracized and bullied by peers, and neither frilly dresses nor female hormones made him feel female.
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However, intersex activists criticized John Money, stating that the unreported failure had led to the surgical reassignment of thousands of infants as a matter of policy.
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Privately, John Money was mortified by the case, colleagues said, and as a rule did not discuss it.
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John Money had a particular interest in gender dysphoria and transgender people.
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John Money believed transgender people had an Idee fixe; a preoccupation of the mind resistant to change.
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In 1965, Money co-established the Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins with the endocrinologist Claude Migeon.
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John Money screened adult patients for two years prior to granting them a medical transition, and reported that none regretted the procedure.
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John Money believed that males, if surgically reassigned and raised as girls around birth, would grow up to be attracted to males and live as heterosexual women.
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John Money coined the term chronophilia and nepiophilia in 1986.
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John Money introduced numerous definitions related to gender in journal articles in the 1950s, many of them as a result of his studies of intersex morphology.
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In 1972, John Money presented his theories in Man and Woman, Boy and Girl, a college level textbook.
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John Money suggested that all of these capitalize on the ancient, pre-Platonic, pre-biblical conception of body versus the mind, and the physical versus the spiritual.
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John Money was briefly married in the 1950s and never had any children.
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For over 40 years, Money lived in a house in Baltimore near the Johns Hopkins medical campus.
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John Money's house had a collection of anthropological art from his travels abroad, including his studies of aboriginal communities in Australia.
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John Money was an early supporter and patron of many famous artists, including New Zealand artists Rita Angus and Theo Schoon, and the American artist Lowell Nesbitt, whom he provided with an x-ray for one artwork.
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John Money was acquainted with Yoko Ono, visiting her in London with Richard Green, and fashioning some of her sculptures.
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In 2002, as his Parkinson's disease worsened, John Money donated a substantial portion of his art collection to the Eastern Southland Art Gallery in Gore, New Zealand.
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John Money died on 7 July 2006, one day before his 85th birthday, in Towson, Maryland, of complications from Parkinson's disease.