May 25, 2017 · The story of David Reimer is a tragic one that I hope no one would ever have to go through. Dr. Money’s obsession to prove that gender is socially constructed did more damage to David’s mental health than help. Although some may argue that he committed
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The Reimers returned to Money’s office every year so that the doctor could monitor both Brian and Brenda’s growth as a boy and a girl.
Money consequently suggested that Reimer undergo sex reassignment surgery and instead be raised female . Desperate, Reimer’s parents took his advice and changed their son’s birth ...
The Reimers took their children to be circumcised at the hospital, but after Bruce Reimer’s surgery went horribly awry because the surgeon used an electrocautery needle instead of a blade, Brian was not subjected to the same surgery and his phimosis healed naturally.
Indeed, Reimer recalled his childhood as far more distressing. “I never quite fit in,” David Reimer said in a 2000 interview on Oprah. “Building forts and getting into the odd fistfight, climbing trees — that’s the kind of stuff that I liked, but it was unacceptable as a girl.”.
Reimer was teased by classmates for his “masculine gait” and his standing to pee in the girl’s bathroom. When Reimer complained about feeling like a boy, his parents and other adults convinced him that it was just a phase. Reimer’s secret disrupted the family.
They were together for 14 years. He was a stepfather to her three children and developed hobbies like camping, fishing, antiques, and collecting old coins. In Memory of David Reimer/Facebook David Reimer committed suicide in May 2004. He was 38.
In May 2004, two years after his twin brother succumbed to a drug overdose, David Reimer committed suicide. He was 38. Reimer’s case was complex.
When Diamond told David Reimer that Money had used the "success" of David's story "to legitimize the widespread use of infant sex change in cases of hermaphroditism and genital injury," Colapinto writes, an outraged David agreed to work with Diamond on a new "myth-shattering" paper that refuted Money's claims.
A few weeks before Bruce's second birthday, he became "Brenda" -- in addition to the sex reassignment surgery, his parents changed his name, began dressing him like a little girl, and gave him toys traditionally associated with young girls, like dolls.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the doctor convinced the Reimers that it was in their son's best interests to raise him as a girl, telling them that it was possible to raise him as a happy and healthy child because, in his view, gender was simply a social construct.
But, as Colapinto noted, "Money mysteriously stopped publishing follow-ups in the late 1970s.". That piqued the interest of Dr. Milton Diamond, a "longtime rival" of Money's.
Bruce and Brian were normal infant boys living normal lives in Manitoba, Canada, until they were about 8 months old. That's when a doctor used an electrocautery needle instead of a scalpel, for reasons unknown, to perform what was supposed to be a routine circumcision. ADVERTISEMENT.
David decided to end his own life in 2004, at 38 years old. His twin brother had died a few years earlier, and his own life was in shambles. He was suffering from deep depression, his 14-year marriage was crumbling, and he'd recently lost $65,000 in a bad investment.
So who was David Reimer? He was born Bruce Reimer on Aug. 22, 1965, the identical twin of Brian Reimer, born to "farm kids barely out of their teens," writes John Colapinto, a journalist who would later write a detailed and horrific account of Reimer's life in Rolling Stone magazine.