David Reimer, 38; After Botched Surgery, He Was Raised as a Girl in Gender Experiment

theozoph · 2011-08-03T19:29:20+00:00

This is the kind of damage false ideas create. No, gender is not socially constructed : a man paid with his life to prove it.

Fuck everything about this.

Whoooah · 2011-08-04T04:05:05+00:00

This was horrific. I watched a long documentary about it once. Family footage, they interviewed his parents. I spent nearly the entire things crying - especially at the home videos of him as a child throwing tantrums about not wanting to go see the asshole doctor who pioneered this sick fuckery.

Psychological and physical torture from birth to death. And he wasn't some war-baby in a prison camp all his life. The people who were meant to protect and care for him did it to him. Yet he still had it in him, and whatever it was we need more of it, to not blame them.

An incredibly exceptional person. I hope he got the relief he needed.

2011-08-03T20:17:10+00:00

Horrific.

MuForceShoelace · 2011-08-04T01:18:36+00:00

He was raised a girl by some of his family and not from others, he was also given very poor gender reassignment surgery because of the damage and was constantly reminded he wasn't a real girl and was also molested repeatedly.

He was not exactly some ideal test of gender theory. It was a kid who had was tortured his whole life then killed himself.

Equa1 · 2011-08-04T14:04:26+00:00

The same hospital at "Hopkins University" is responsible for those unethical aids reduction through circumcision studies.

Clearly they are still interested in the genital mutilation of males.

Title	David Reimer, 38; After Botched Surgery, He Was Raised as a Girl in Gender Experiment
Author	theozoph
Upvotes	7
Comments	22
Date	August 3, 2011 7:27 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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