Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-10733658-20141110163643

Since there's been all this discussion about Gender Identity, and confusion about it.....I suggest people read about this. It was a tragic but completely landmark case in our understanding of Gender Identity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

He was born male, but a circumcision mishap resulted in the decision to reassign and raise him as a girl. He was completely unaware of his birth sex and the doctor overseeing his case (for his research) aggressively pushed for essentially a hyper-feminine upbringing. But he never identified as a girl, and as a teen expressed a male identity regardless of hormone injections to grow breasts and being raised as a girl -- after learning the truth from his parents was given surgery to correct things. It pretty much disproved the theory that Gender Identity is something that can be controlled, rather than an in-born trait.