Posted on 07/24/2006 9:18:13 AM PDT by Sopater
Doesn't look like Bob Knight.
I know several girls who were born with both male and female organs. One was in my son's Lamaze class. They were waiting till she hit puberty to see if she was more male or more female, before they did the surgery. What a nightmare for her. But another little girl Bonnie was in my other son's third grade class. They decided she was more female than male and did the surgery on her as an infant. She looked like a little boy in a dress. She had big strong hands, she was very muscular and got into fights all the time. She was a major behavior problem. She was a very angry little girl. A friend of mine who is a doctor said if a baby isn't totally male it is considered female. That is sad. I also know a girl who was born without a uterus, and another one who was born with two. There are so many birth defects. It is a wonder anyone is ever born normal and physically perfect.
David Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man who was born as a mentally and biologically healthy boy, but was sexually reassigned and raised as a girl in an attempt to improve his life after his penis was inadvertently destroyed during circumcision. The reassignment was ultimately unsuccessful and as an adult he resumed a male gender role and went public with his story to discourage similar medical practices. He committed suicide at the age of 38.
Overview
David Reimer was born as a male identical twin, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His birth name was Bruce; his twin brother was named Brian. At the age of 6 months, after concern was raised about how Bruce and Brian urinated, both boys were diagnosed with phimosis. They were referred for circumcision at the age of 8 months (it is not known whether alternative therapies were tried). On April 27, 1966, the surgeon, Jean-Marie Huot, and the anaesthesiologist Max Cham performed the circumcision with the aid of a Bovie cautery machine (which is not intended for use on the extremities or genitals). Bruce's penis was destroyed. After this, Brian's circumcision was cancelled, and he made a full recovery from his condition without further treatment.[1]
Bruce's parents, concerned about his prospects for future happiness and sexual function without a penis, took him to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore to see John Money, a psychologist who was developing a reputation as a pioneer in the field of sexual development and gender identity, based on his work with intersex patients. Money was a prominent proponent of the theory that gender identity was relatively "plastic" in infancy and developed primarily as a result of social learning from early childhood; some academics in the late 1960s felt that all psychological and behavioral differences between males and females were learned. He and the physicians working with other young children born with abnormal genitalia felt that a penis could not be replaced but that a functional vagina could be constructed surgically and that he would be more likely to achieve successful, functional sexual maturation as a girl than as a boy.
They persuaded his parents that sex reassignment would be in Bruce's best interest, and at the age of 22 months, surgery was performed to remove his testes. He was "reassigned" to be raised as a female and given the name 'Brenda'. Psychological support for the reassignment and surgery was provided by John Money, who continued to see Brenda for years, both for treatment and to assess the outcome. This reassignment was considered an especially valid "test case" of the social learning concept of gender identity for two reasons. First, Bruce/Brenda had a twin brother, Brian, who made an ideal "control" since he had shared not only the genes, but also the intrauterine and family environments. Second, this was reputed to be the first reassignment and reconstruction performed on a male infant who had no abnormality of prenatal or early postnatal sexual differentiation.
For several years, Money reported on Brenda's progress as the "John/Joan case", describing apparently successful female gender development, and using this case to support the feasibility of sex reassignment and surgical reconstruction even in non-intersex cases. Estrogen was given to Brenda when she reached adolescence to induce breast development. However, Brenda had experienced the visits to Baltimore as traumatic rather than therapeutic and her family discontinued the follow-up visits. John Money published nothing further about the case to suggest the reassignment had not been successful.
Reimer's later account, written with John Colapinto, described how, contrary to Money's reports, Brenda did not feel like a girl. She was ostracized and bullied by peers, and neither frilly dresses nor female hormones made her feel female. By the age of 13, Brenda was experiencing suicidal depression, and told her parents she would commit suicide if they made her see John Money again. In 1980, Brenda's parents told her the truth about her gender reassignment, following advice from Brenda's endocrinologist and psychiatrist. Now 15, Brenda decided to assume a male gender identity, calling himself David. After learning of the new relationship with his ex-sister, Brian began to experience a pattern of mental disturbance that would develop into schizophrenia. By 1997, David had undergone treatment to reverse the reassignment, including testosterone injections, a double mastectomy, and two phalloplasty operations. He had married a woman and become a stepfather to her 3 children.
His case came to international attention in 1997 when he told his story to Milton Diamond, an academic sexologist who persuaded David to allow him to report the outcome to dissuade physicians from treating other infants similarly. Soon after, David went public with his story and John Colapinto published a widely disseminated and influential account in Rolling Stone magazine in December, 1997. They went on to elaborate the story in a book.
Although the book gave David Reimer more financial comfort, he had many other problems in his life, including a separation from his wife, severe problems for his parents, and the death of his twin brother Brian, in 2002, from an overdose of schizophrenia medication. David Reimer took his own life with a sawed-off shotgun in 2004.
The "Identity" episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that aired on January 18th, 2005, was based on Reimer's life.
One was in my son's Lamaze class.
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What was he / she doing in a Lamaze class?
But, like the fake "10% of the population is homosexual" this will never be reported or analyzed.
It doesn't fit the goals of the MSM culture wars.
Actually, it is a miracle.
Shalom.
I would think a chromosomal test would be very informative --- with the exception of an XXY or something.
Man, what a story. What a sad, sad situation.
I wonder how many circumcisions were botched in the bible days and how they handled it then. I seriously doubt any were raised as women.
My guess is, she was fertile, despite having more prominent external sexual characteristics than most women.
Succumbing to the siren song of modern pseudo-science as more dangerous than believing the earth is flat. While the latter is a theory based on ignorance and fear, the former is an outright lie.
Money lived 40 years too long.
I don't know about the other person, but I work in hospital and have only occassionally seen this phenomenon. Instead of a pink or blue card, they will have a white card. But where I work, they do genetic testing to verify the sex.
| Tragic Twins Doomed by Cruel Sex Swap | ||
| David Reimer, 38, Subject of the John/Joan Case, Dies | ||
| David Reimer - The boy who lived as a girl | ||
| The Boy who was Turned into a Girl |
Actually, this is a physical impossibility since the penis and clitoris come from the same embryonic anlage, and the scrotum and labia also share the same embryonic origin.
Did this guy start the sex change phenomenon?
Sexologist? Talk about putting euphemistic lipstick on a pig. Kinsey was nothing but a filthy pervert/ pedophile.
Seems to me that one should just take the body God gave you and make the best of it. Has there been ANY "sex reassignment" that made a person happy with themselves and successful? Seems to me that all of these are sad cases and those who have gone through the trouble to "change" their gender probably end up realizing they should have stayed the way they were.
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