Pacific Center for Sex and Society

Announcements

VIDEO INTERVIEW

In February 2012 Dr. Diamond was interviewed via Skype by Christan Williams of the Transgender Center in Houston, Texas. The 35-minute interview is available on Youtube, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqU1IxEDxk.

REWARD

I am Dr. Milton Diamond of the University of Hawai‘i Medical School. I am the one who unraveled the John/Joan case.

I am looking for two people that were born in the Atlanta Northside Hospital in 1985. They accidently had their penises burned off during what should have been routine circumcisions.

In particular, I am looking for the one that, without your permission, was surgically changed from being a boy to a girl. The reward will be to yourself for finding out how and why you were treated as you were. More importantly, your experience can inform and reward scientists and physicians around the world that what was done to you was either appropriate or not.

It is my belief you are probably now living as a man. I believe what was done to you was both unfortunate and wrong.

I would also like to find the one maintained as a boy. Importantly, your experience can also inform and reward scientists and physicians around the world that what was done to you was either appropriate or not. It is my belief you also are probably now living as a man.

Your identity will be kept confidential. Everything you relate will be held in confidence, at your discretion. I only want to pass along your experiences with publication and on this web site, to prevent the mistake from being repeated on others. You will both be rewarded by knowing you will be helping thousands of infants from wrongful surgery.

I will be in Atlanta in September to attend and speak at the Southern Comfort Conference and the meeting of the World Professional Association of Transgender Therapists. I can be reached beforehand at diamond@hawaii.edu, or by phone at (808) 956-7400. I can be met at one of the meetings.

Please get in touch. The world will be grateful for the information you provide.

Any others that might be able to help, please get in touch.

Thank you and Aloha,
Dr. Milton Diamond

ARE YOU A TWIN? ARE YOU TRANSSEXUAL?

Thank you for your help!

Some time ago, the following appeal for help was issued:

"It is now understood that among twins, there are sets in which both have transitioned gender and other sets in which only one has switched. Will you please help us try and find out why the differences? Your participation will augment the contributions currently on hand. This research was started some years ago but completion had to unfortunately be postponed. It is now being revived. Please help if you can."

We have now collected enough data to analyse, and have produced some interesting findings. So far we can only publish the abstract, but the full article will appear on this web site as soon as possible. The abstract can be read here.

Recommended book on Klinefelter's Syndrome

The KS Story - You are not alone

An account of Klinefelter's Syndrome by Iain W. McKinlay (47,XXY) , with a foreword by Professor Milton Diamond Ph.D.

There are two documents which you can download for free: the book itself (PDF file, 8MB) and an introduction by the author (PDF file, 67KB).

NEW ZEALAND DOCUMENTARY ON INTERSEX

A television documentary fronted by Mani Bruce Mitchell has been televised in New Zealand in July 2011, and has been very well received. It has been divided into segments of approximately ten minutes each and placed on Youtube, so that anybody anywhere can watch it. (Dr. Diamond makes a brief appearance in Part 2.)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LEXo9ajmY
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44nLMsc_GGo
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LnP4dnVHjM
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkJeRDq-8aA
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtED32wQFaA

HJERNEVASK ( "BRAINWASH")

DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON THE NATURE-NURTURE ISSUE IN BOY/GIRL BEHAVIORS

The series is in Norwegian with English subtitles. Each episode is around 40 minutes in length.

Note: You will be asked for a password; this is hjernevask (all lower case) . You must also have Javascript enabled for the site vimeo.com.

Part 1: The Gender Equality Paradox - http://vimeo.com/19707588
Part 2: The Parental Effect - http://vimeo.com/19893826
Part 3: Gay/Straight - http://vimeo.com/19869748
Part 4: Violence - http://vimeo.com/19921232
Part 5: Sex - http://vimeo.com/19921928
Part 6: Race - http://vimeo.com/19922972
Part 7: Nature or Nurture - http://vimeo.com/19889788