Abstract
Nikki Sullivan is a feminist philosopher and cultural studies scholar who has made several landmark contributions to trans studies, including her essay “Transmogrification: (Un)Becoming Others” in the first volume of the Transgender Studies Reader. In “The Matter of Gender,” she offers a succinct overview of one of the most influential voices in the study of gender: John Money, who is often credited with inventing the concept of gender itself. Along with medical colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in the 1950s, Money coined the gender-concept to explain how intersex people, who have ambiguous sex anatomy, form identities as men and women, that is, how people with atypical genitals develop a sense of self and a social role in society whose personhood categories are based on a male/female dichotomy. Money conceives gender identity and gender role as “obverse sides of the same coin. They constitute a unity”.
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