1. Some people have argued that the Johns Hopkins psychologist used this opportunity as an experiment to test his nurture theory of gender identity. What are the expected results of this experiment, assuming that the nurture theory is valid? The expected results of the experiment, providing that the nurture theory is valid then the boy that went through gender reassignment surgery would have grown up flawlessly as girl. The nature theory states an organism will reflect environmental factors. Hence, since the parents grew the child as a girl and other feminine characteristics, the child would develop as if he were born a girl. (he would have adjusted perfectly as a girl)
2. According to the nurture theory, predict the gender identity Bruce would express if he were not subjected to gender re-assignment surgery and raised as a boy? (A gender identity is ones private sense of being a man or a female, and consists primarily of the acceptance of membership in a particular group of people: male or female. Basic gender identity is usually formed by age three and is extremely difficult to change after that. All societies have a set of gender categories that can serve as the basis of the formation of a social identity in relation to other members of society. In most societies, there is a basic division between gender attributes assigned to males and females. In all societies, however, some individuals do not identify with the gender that is assigned to their biological sex.)

Answer: Gender identity is an individual's remote sense of being either a male or female. If Bruce had not done gender reassignment surgery he would have developed as a male. Although his genitalia was severely damaged and concluded as dysfunctional, he would still possess he testicles. The testicles is the site where testosterone is produced, the hormone that would yield