[Quiet Man Cometh]

I know of David's story. It's tragic. I told it to my dad once and he didn't believe anything like that could have happened until it came on TV in a Nova special.

The story I mentioned was more about letting the child act as it wanted to without fussing over it's sexual role. David's story really shows how badly things can go when people try to force a gender/sex onto someone.

I've never thought about that story in relation to someone's perception of their own sex but it's occurring to me now. David was unhappy as "Brenda" and it says a lot that he chose later to live as a male despite how he was raised. Do we assume that the choice was related to biology when other people also feel that they aren't living as the right sex when they don't happen to have the matching parts?

Not thinking of an answer for that, just rolling the notion around in my head.