John money died
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David Reimer, 38; After Botched Surgery, He Was Raised as a Girl in Gender Experiment
David Reimer, the Canadian man raised as a girl for most of the first 14 years of his life in a highly touted medical experiment that seemed to resolve the debate over the cultural and biological determinants of gender, has died at 38. He committed suicide May 4 in his hometown of Winnipeg, Canada.
At 8 months of age, Reimer became the unwitting subject of “sex reassignment,” a treatment method embraced by his parents after his penis was all but obliterated during a botched circumcision. The American doctor whose advice they sought recommended that their son be castrated, given hormone treatments and raised as a girl. The physician, Dr. John Money, supervised the case for several years and eventually wrote a paper declaring the success of the gender conversion.
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David Reimer and John Money Gender Reassignment Controversy: The John/Joan Case
In the mid-1960s, psychologist John Money encouraged the gender reassignment of David Reimer, who was born a biological male but suffered irreparable damage to his penis as an infant. Born in 1965 as Bruce Reimer, his penis was irreparably damaged during infancy due to a failed circumcision. After encouragement from Money, Reimer’s parents decided to raise Reimer as a girl. Reimer underwent surgery as an infant to construct rudimentary female genitals, and was given female hormones during puberty. During childhood, Reimer was never told he was biologically male and regularly visited Money, who tracked the progress of his gender reassignment. Reimer unknowingly acted as an experimental subject in Money’s controversial investigation, which he called the John/Joan case. The case provided results that were used to justify thousands of sex reassignment surgeries for cases of children with reproductive abnormalities. Despite his upbringing, Reimer rejected the female identity as a young teenager and began
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Memorable Manitobans: David Peter Reimer (1965-2004)
Medical subject.
Born at Winnipeg on 22 August 1965, the elder of identical twin boys born to Janet Schultz and Ronald Reimer, he was originally named Bruce and his twin was named Brian. At the age of six months, both boys were diagnosed with phimosis and referred for circumcision. However, David’s penis was badly burned by a procedure called electrocauterization, resulting in Brian’s surgery being cancelled. The parents, concerned about their son’s prospects for future happiness and sexual function, took him to see John Money at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in early 1967 after seeing a program on television about Money’s theories about gender identity.
Money’s claim was that Reimer would be more likely to achieve successful, functional sexual maturation as a girl than as a boy. For Money, a case involving identical twin boys, where one could be raised as a girl, provided a perfect test of his theories, and he and a Johns Hopkins team persuaded the baby’s parents that sex reassignmen
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