A Neurologist’s Perspective on Gender Identity

A Neurologist’s Perspective on Gender Identity

Debates over what it means when someone who was born a girl claims to be a boy, or vice versa, have raged in recent years. Many activists and some experts assert that internally felt gender identity is determinative and indisputable, like the fact that water makes you wet. At the other end of the spectrum are those who regard claims of gender nonconformity as false and harmful beliefs. There is another condition in which the reliability of self-…