Thought So… [Schizophrenagenia]

In the 50s, schizophrenia was seen as a symptom of extremely repressed sexuality. Schizophrenagenisus theorized thought-patterns could be transferred in utero; when a mother desires for a child of a specific gender, a ‘misgendered’ child at birth would therefore be homosexual.

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