According to Milton Diamond, children born with conditions involving atypical sexual development _________
A) should undergo surgery to make their genitals appear less ambiguous as soon after birth as possible.
B) rarely experience difficulties with emotional adjustment or gender identity due to hormonal and/or surgical efforts to manage their conditions.
C) should not be informed about their sexual development disorder until they reach adulthood.
D) are less likely to experience later gender confusion or adjustment difficulties if genital-altering surgeries are avoided in early childhood.
Question 2
What do follow-up analyses on an unusual study of two identical twin boys, one of whom experienced a circumcision accident, was subsequently raised as a female, and received appropriate sex-change surgery, reveal?
A) That socialization plays an even greater role in gender-identity formation than was originally assumed
B) That some intersexed children may not be as psychosexually neutral at birth as originally believed.
C) Clear evidence that gender identity is psychologically neutral at birth
D) The efficacy of sex reassignment of children.
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