“I thought they were going to use a knife. “I could not comprehend what he was talking about,” Janet Reimer remembered. The next morning, they received a devastating phone call – Bruce had been involved in an accident.ĭoctors had used a cauterizing needle instead of a blade, and the electrical equipment had malfunctioned and the surge in current had completely burned off Bruce’s penis. But after seven months, both were having difficulty urinating.Īcting on advice, the parents, Janet and Ron, took the boys to the hospital for a circumcision. Twins Bruce and Brian Reimer were born in Canada as two perfectly normal boys. There was a case just like this in the 1960s, a case which ended in tragedy. When anyone has a baby the first question everyone asks is: “Is it a boy or a girl?”īiologically it is sex hormones, physical appearance and the sex chromosomes – XX for a woman, XY for a man – which dictate whether someone is male or female.īut what happens if you bring up someone who was a boy as a girl? Oprah show from 2000 (four years before David’s suicide): He changed his name to David and lived the rest of his life as a psychologically disturbed male. The parents revealed the truth to the child when he began puberty and became depressed and suicidal. He convinced the mother to raise the boy as a girl in an internationally-known experiment that he falsely claimed was a success. The mother consulted with a psychologist who specialized in gender and sexual identity and believed that gender is not biological but learned through socialization and upbringing. Winnipeg, Canada: In 1965, a 7-month old male infant, an identical twin, underwent surgery, and his penis was accidentally destroyed during a circumcision when the doctor used an electrical device to cauterize it instead of following traditional surgical procedure.
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