Born in the Wrong Body

Psychology (Humanities), 1928

Thinking like a girl when you’re a boy. Doing boy stuff if you’re a girl. Being upset about it because… society.

The concept of the mind and body being separate has been with us since Greek times as Mind-Body Dualism. It’s also the concept in philosophy of Soma (body) and Psyche (mind). The expression finds its modern routes in “sexologist” Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s theory of “Sexual Inversion” which was included on his large list of seriously disturbing sexual behaviour.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=born+in+the+wrong+body
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22born+in+the+wrong+body%22
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_inversion_%28sexology%29
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathia_Sexualis