Hermaphroditism, gender and precocity in hyperadrenocorticism: psychologic findings
Money, J.
Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 96(6): 253-264
1955
ISSN/ISBN: 0097-1383 PMID: 14378807 Document Number: 3143
Sixty infants, children and adults, representing seven types of hermaphroditism and including 39 hyperadrenocortical females, have been under comprehensive psychologic investigation. Gender role and outlook as boy or man, girl or woman, was found to be in agreement with sex of rearing, except in three cases, and not to be automatically or instinctively determined by chromosomes, gonads or hormones. Twelve hyperadrenocortical females and ten males were under study while still precociously virilizing. In psychological maturity, they resembled children of their age, though precocious physique, when combined with high IQ, permitted acceleration of psychological development in some respects, if life experiences also promoted it.
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