- 09 May 2022 04:41
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Bruce Reimer was born in Winnipeg, Canada, as one of two identical twins. When they were only eight months old the doctors wanted to circumcise both boys (cutting off the part of the penis known as the foreskin). Neither of the parents had ever finished highschool and did not know any better, so they brought their twins in for the "procedure". The doctor who normally did the procedure was not available that day, so another doctor who did not have much experience with circumcisions was assigned. The doctor somehow got the idea into his head that the procedure would be less complicated if he used an electric cauterizing scalpel. Such a device is virtually never used for circumcisions. The doctor attempted to make the first incision, but the scalpel did not seem to be working. He turned up the power setting. It still did not work. Frustrated, the doctor turned up the power setting all the way. What happened next was horrifying. Another doctor, who was in an adjacent room at the time, later reported that he could smell burnt flesh.
Bruce's little penis changed color and became rigid and rough in texture. His pee hole was sealed closed. Doctors had to make an incision below the baby's navel and insert a catheter directly into the bladder so the urine would be able to drain out. Over the next few days, the penis blackened like charcoal and finally flacked away. Only the base of the penis was left.
Bruce's parents were horrified when they were told of what had happened to their little boy baby (the doctors waited two days to tell them).
But even this is not as shocking as what came next...
The parents, concerned about their son's prospects for future happiness and sexual function without a penis, took their son to see a psychologist named John Money, who was at the cutting edge of research of young children born with abnormal genitalia. He believed that, although the penis could not be replaced, a functional vagina could be constructed surgically, and Bruce would be more likely to achieve successful, functional sexual maturation as a girl than as a boy. The parents did not know what to do. They were impressed by the psychlogist who seemed to know what he was talking about. Their local family physician strongly recommended against the advice of the psychlogist, but Money stressed that they needed to begin as soon as possible. After a few months, Money finally persuaded the parents to consent to sex reassignment surgery for their baby. At the age of 22 months, the baby's testicles were removed. The baby was thereafter raised as a female and given the name Brenda.
When Brenda reached 11 years of age, he was forced to take hormone pills to feminize his body. Brenda did not want to turn into a girl, and at first refused to take the pills. Her parents did not give him any choice, he later remembered. He pretended to take the pills while flushing them down the toilet, but the parents caught on and thereafter stood watch over the child while he was made to swallow the pills. To his intense dismay, Brenda grew a pair of breasts. Brenda was forced to wear frilly dresses, even during the cold Canadian winters. When Dr. Money started pressuring the family to bring him in for surgery, during which a vagina would be constructed, the family discontinued follow-up visits. From 22 months into his teenaged years Reimer urinated through a hole surgeons had placed in the abdomen. Dr. Money wrote in his reports that everything was proceeding successfully with the patient. (In his reports, Money had ignored or concealed the mounting evidence that the patient's gender reassignment to female was not going well.)
Despite this, Brenda did not identify with being a girl, and made this clear to her family. By the age of 13, Reimer was experiencing suicidal depression, and told his parents he would commit suicide if they made him see John Money again. After this, Brenda's parents finally told him the truth about what had happened as to him as a baby and the gender reassignment. At age 14, he decided to assume a male gender identity, and changed his name to "David". The hormone treatments were reversed, and David later went on to marry a woman and adopt children. David suffered from severe depression throughout his adult life, in no small part due to his traumatic childhood experiences. He had to deal with long term unemployment, financial instability, and a troubled marriage. Tragically, David finally committed suicide, shooting himself in the head with a shotgun.
A book was made about David Reimer's ordeal. "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl" by John Colapinto.
Here is a picture of the child as "Brenda",
https://allthatsinteresting.com/thumb/1 ... ured-1.jpg
Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis
April 7, 2011
Bruce's little penis changed color and became rigid and rough in texture. His pee hole was sealed closed. Doctors had to make an incision below the baby's navel and insert a catheter directly into the bladder so the urine would be able to drain out. Over the next few days, the penis blackened like charcoal and finally flacked away. Only the base of the penis was left.
Bruce's parents were horrified when they were told of what had happened to their little boy baby (the doctors waited two days to tell them).
But even this is not as shocking as what came next...
The parents, concerned about their son's prospects for future happiness and sexual function without a penis, took their son to see a psychologist named John Money, who was at the cutting edge of research of young children born with abnormal genitalia. He believed that, although the penis could not be replaced, a functional vagina could be constructed surgically, and Bruce would be more likely to achieve successful, functional sexual maturation as a girl than as a boy. The parents did not know what to do. They were impressed by the psychlogist who seemed to know what he was talking about. Their local family physician strongly recommended against the advice of the psychlogist, but Money stressed that they needed to begin as soon as possible. After a few months, Money finally persuaded the parents to consent to sex reassignment surgery for their baby. At the age of 22 months, the baby's testicles were removed. The baby was thereafter raised as a female and given the name Brenda.
When Brenda reached 11 years of age, he was forced to take hormone pills to feminize his body. Brenda did not want to turn into a girl, and at first refused to take the pills. Her parents did not give him any choice, he later remembered. He pretended to take the pills while flushing them down the toilet, but the parents caught on and thereafter stood watch over the child while he was made to swallow the pills. To his intense dismay, Brenda grew a pair of breasts. Brenda was forced to wear frilly dresses, even during the cold Canadian winters. When Dr. Money started pressuring the family to bring him in for surgery, during which a vagina would be constructed, the family discontinued follow-up visits. From 22 months into his teenaged years Reimer urinated through a hole surgeons had placed in the abdomen. Dr. Money wrote in his reports that everything was proceeding successfully with the patient. (In his reports, Money had ignored or concealed the mounting evidence that the patient's gender reassignment to female was not going well.)
Despite this, Brenda did not identify with being a girl, and made this clear to her family. By the age of 13, Reimer was experiencing suicidal depression, and told his parents he would commit suicide if they made him see John Money again. After this, Brenda's parents finally told him the truth about what had happened as to him as a baby and the gender reassignment. At age 14, he decided to assume a male gender identity, and changed his name to "David". The hormone treatments were reversed, and David later went on to marry a woman and adopt children. David suffered from severe depression throughout his adult life, in no small part due to his traumatic childhood experiences. He had to deal with long term unemployment, financial instability, and a troubled marriage. Tragically, David finally committed suicide, shooting himself in the head with a shotgun.
A book was made about David Reimer's ordeal. "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl" by John Colapinto.
Here is a picture of the child as "Brenda",
https://allthatsinteresting.com/thumb/1 ... ured-1.jpg
Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis
April 7, 2011
- By FiveofSwords
- By wat0n