&gt; For me, my very self has no gender. While obviously I can only testify to my own experience of being a person—to my knowledge, I’ve only been this one—I cannot imagine that I alone enjoy such a self-perception.<p>It may be anecdotal but the case of David Reimer certainly contradicts her theory.<p>Reimer was castrated as an infant and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision. He had surgery and hormone therapy. Nevertheless he identified as a boy and displayed many of the same symptoms that trans people do.<p>I would say his &#x27;self&#x27; had a gender.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;David_Reimer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;David_Reimer</a>