John Money

John Money

John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for his research on human sexual behavior and gender. He was one of the first researchers to publish theories on the influence of societal constructs of gender on individual formation of gender identity. Money introduced the terms gender role and sexual orientation and popularised the terms gender identity and paraphilia.Working with endocrinologist Claude Migeon, Money established the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic, the first clinic in the United States to perform sexual reassignment surgeries.A 1997 academic study criticised Money's work in many respects, particularly in regard to the involuntary sex-reassignment of the child David Reimer, and Money's abuse of Reimer and his brother when they were children. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Money has received more than 2,759,394 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). John Money is the 96th most popular psychologist (up from 135th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 17th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Psychologist.