David Reimer

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1966 General practitioner Dr. Jean-Marie Huot performed the operation using the unconventional method of electrocauterization,[6][7] but the procedure did not go as doctors had planned, and David's penis was burned beyond surgical repair.
1967 At the age of 22 months, David underwent a bilateral orchidectomy, in which his testes were surgically removed and a rudimentary vulva was fashioned.
1967 The Reimers had seen Money being interviewed in February 1967 on the Canadian news program This Hour Has Seven Days, during which he discussed his theories about gender.
1971 Starting at age six, according to Brian, the twins were forced to act out sexual acts, with David playing the female role-Money made Reimer get down on all fours, and Brian was forced to "come up behind [him] and place his crotch against [his] buttock
1978 By the age of 13 years, Reimer was experiencing suicidal depression and he told his parents he would take his own life if they made him see Money again.
1980 Finally, on 14 March 1980, Reimer's parents told him the truth about his gender reassignment, [32] following advice from Reimer's endocrinologist and psychiatrist.
1997 A 1997 academic study criticised Money's work in many respects, particularly in regard to the involuntary sex-reassignment of the child David Reimer, and Money's abuse of Reimer and his brother when they were children.
2001 As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (book)
According to John Colapinto, who published a biography of Reimer in 2001, the sessions with Money included what Money called "childhood sexual rehearsal play":
At the time, surgical construction of the vagina was more advanced than construction of the penis, and Money believed that Reimer would be happiest in adulthood living as a woman with functioning genitalia.
Brian was found dead of a drug overdose at 36, and Reimer died by suicide at age 38. Reimer's parents state that Money's methodology was responsible for both deaths.
Colapinto's book described unpleasant childhood therapy sessions, implying that Money had ignored or concealed the developing evidence that Reimer's reassignment to female was not going well.
For the first 30 years after Money's initial report that the reassignment had been a success, Money's view of the malleability of gender became the dominant viewpoint...
He was one of the first researchers to publish theories on the influence of societal constructs of gender on individual formation of gender identity.
Money also forced Reimer, in another sexual position, to have his "legs spread" with Brian on top. On "at least one occasion" Money took a photograph of the two children doing these activities.
Money and the Hopkins family team persuaded the baby's parents that sex reassignment surgery would be in Reimer's best interest.
Money never commented publicly on Colapinto's book or on Reimer's suicide before his death, although colleagues said he was "mortified" by the case.
Remier was raised under the "optimum gender rearing model" which was the common model for sex and gender socialization/medicalization for intersex youth, the model was heavily criticized for being sexist.
Some of Money's "therapy" sessions involved Money forcing the two children to perform sexual activities with each other, which Money then photographed, "for research".
The psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned.
This reassignment was considered an especially important test case[25] of the social learning concept of gender identity for two reasons:

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