1. The Sexual Identity Experiment
In 1966, Janet Reimer gave birth to healthy twin boys, but her happiness was short-lived. While a doctor was circumcising her son Bruce, he burnt the infant’s genitals so badly that they had to be completely removed.
The confused parents visited Dr. John Money, a sexual identity expert. He advised them to perform a sex change operation and raise him as a girl, Brenda. Unbeknownst to them, by taking his advice, they were playing into Money’s hands. He simply wanted a real-life experiment to prove a hypothesis.
Raised as Brenda, Bruce never fit into the female role, ditching dresses and dolls for toy guns. Money continued to assure the parents that he was only going through a phase while he was publishing papers about the ‘successful’ experiment. Whenever he was taken to see the psychologist, Money tried to browbeat the child into accepting being a girl.
When the truth finally came out, Bruce decided to revert to being a male and changed his name to David. He had re-constructive surgery and got married. But his deeply traumatic childhood led to depression and the breakdown of his marriage. Two years after his brother died in 2002, David Reimer committed suicide.
Money was never prosecuted, and remained an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins till he died in 2006.
by Ade O
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