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June 6, 2003
The Boy Who Was Raised as
a Girl
When David Reimer was eight months old he suffered a botched
circumcision which destroyed his penis. Desperate for help,
David's parents sought the advice of sexologist Dr. John
Money. Money, who believes that children are born
psychosexually neutral, convinced David's parents to have
their son completely castrated and raised as a female.
Because David had an identical twin who was being raised as
a boy, it was an ideal test case for the popular feminist
idea that it is nurture, not nature, which differentiates
between males and females.
David's mother Janet says of her first outing with her the
first public outing with her baby 'girl':
"I got some fabric and started sewing dresses. He was trying
to rip off the dress and I thought, 'Oh, my God, what have I
done?' "
While Money and others trumpeted the alleged "success" of
the experiment, David suffered an agonizing childhood,
finally learning the truth about himself at age 15. David
struggled through the subsequent years, and described his
ordeal as being "like brainwashing...I'd give just about
anything to go to a hypnotist to black out my whole past.
Because it's torture. What they did to you in the body is
sometimes not near as bad as what they did to you in the
mind with the psychological warfare in your head." A few
weeks ago David committed suicide.
Dr. Milton Diamond of the University of Hawaii is a longtime
critic of Dr. Money's theories.
Fox News Columnist Wendy McElroy is the author of
Death by Theory? A tragic suicide disproves a feminist
theory and is a critic of the idea that gender can be
reassigned through social conditioning. Diamond and McElroy
joined Glenn on
His Side with Glenn Sacks.
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