Has anyone in history tried to raise a woman to develop agency? (100% raise her like a man)

autowikibot · 2014-10-15T23:22:56+00:00

There's the guy lost his penis as an infant to a botched circumcision so his family raised him as a girl. He killed himself.

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

AFPJ · 2014-10-15T18:29:04+00:00

Not sure OP, and not to sound close-minded but what's the point of trying to make a wrench do a screwdriver's job?

shooter212 · 2014-10-15T18:38:04+00:00

That will never happen but something close I heard about in a class on human development... A kid was born a hermaphrodite, with male and female genitalia, I think this was in canada. Usually one of the two types of genitalia is more prevalent if i recall so they do some corrective surgery to augment the dominant one and reduce the less prevalent one.

In this case from what I recall the male was somewhat more dominant but there was a prominent gender-neutral psychology "expert" at the time saying gender identity is all culture --- all nurture no nature. The "expert" talked to the mother, who wanted a girl. So they made the decision to make the kid female.

They gave the kid dresses, baby dolls, all the girl stuff, but it did not take. The kid said he felt more like a boy. They kept on pushing the female culturizing agenda as long as they could. Once the kid got into his teens he tried to rebel against it and assert himself.

Long story short, the kid was quite messed up and I think ended up committing suicide. But either way it was a huge refutation of the "gender is only a social construct" ideology.

Manuel_S · 2014-10-15T22:06:57+00:00

You could raise a dog to walk on its hind days ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Use reward and punishment, electric shocks, whatever.

He'll walk. Not very well, won't be happy about it, will develop health issues. Yeah, he'll walk.

Nobody's going to come out of that looking good, though.

SuperSlavisWife · 2014-10-16T11:12:21+00:00

Some African and N. American tribes had classes of men that were raised to be female (some even being physically trained to breastfeed). If that's of any interest to you I'll dig up the names.

Unaware of any similar cases where women are raised as men, I assume because to do so the women would have to be raised by men, as boys, which is nigh-impossible due to the gender dynamics that develop once the girls hit puberty. Tomboyish lesbians with many brothers and pretty much zero female friends and interests from early childhood may be the closest you can get.

Title	Has anyone in history tried to raise a woman to develop agency? (100% raise her like a man)
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Date	October 15, 2014 5:53 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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