Saturday 15 March 2014

David Reimer : The Boy Who Raised As A Girl



David Reimer was born a boy named Bruce. When he was eight months old, a botched circumcision operation severely injured his genitals. Psychologist Dr. John Money of Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore persuaded David’s parents to turn him into a girl. They agreed to submit their son to a radical sex-change procedure, give him female hormones and psychologically condition him into believing he was their daughter.

Known as the John/Joan case, David, now Brenda, had a constructed vagina and was given hormonal supplements., and served as proof to the theory that children were not by nature feminine or masculine, but socialized into their genders.



David’s life in Winnipeg, Canada, however, did not reflect this theory. Classmates taunted him for how he walked, and refused to allow him access to school bathrooms. He didn’t like dresses and had no sexual interest in boys. Inside, he felt conflicted about his gender identity. Then, when he was 14, David learned the truth about his past. After undergoing penis reconstruction and testosterone therapy, he changed his name to David and returned to a male identity.Dr. Money reported no further results beyond insisting that the experiment had been a success, leaving out many details of David’s obvious struggle with gender identity


David later married and became the stepfather of three children. He shared his story with journalist John Colapinto in the 2000 book, “As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl,” and appeared on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” in order to save other children from a similar fate. His story was also the subject of the 2001 PBS documentary, “Sex: Unknown.”


In recent years, David suffered from depression following a series of personal and professional setbacks. His twin brother died. He lost his job, and he separated from his wife. But David told his parents that things would get better soon. At the age of 38, David committed suicide.



2 comments:

  1. And this case is considered the basis of Gender Ideology, a "successful" experiment proving gender agnosticism. I wonder whether the US and Western Europe will ever realize that they are corrupting the brains of innocent children into thinking they can be what they want, instead of how they have been Created, that they are corrupting entire generations of people, which will eventually lead to a reversed value system, in which heterosexuality and procreation will be considered the niche, thus slowly leading us into extinction (except for a well protected "elite" and a layer of the worker class, needed by that elite to do their jobs, brainwashed). I think people should wake up and start fighting for traditional rights and values, too, not only for the ones of LGBTQ+ .

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