Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

: Jason Aronson. To stress the idea that gender identity and gender role are two aspects of the same thing Money coined a new term: Gender-Identity/Role which he frequently abbreviated as "G-I/R. While there Money was involved with the Sexual Behaviors Unit which ran studies on sex reassignment surgery.

John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a psychologist sexologist and author specialising in research into sexual identity and biology of gender.