The Sadists of Transgenderism

Identical twins, Brian and Bruce Reimer was born on 22 August 1965 in Winnipeg, Ontario. At six months of age, they were diagnosed with phimosis, a condition in which the foreskin of the penis cannot retract, inhibiting regular urination. On 27 April 1966, Bruce underwent circumcision, but the physician used the unconventional technique of cauterization, and the circumcision failed. Biographers suggest that his penis was either totally severed or damaged beyond the possibility of function.

Brian did not undergo circumcision and his phimosis healed naturally.

In 1967, Bruce’s parents sought the help of John Money, a psychologist and sexologist who worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Following their consultation,  they decided to raise Bruce as a girl.

Why?  Money stated that being raised as a female was in Bruce’s interest! After all, at the time, infants born with abnormal or intersex genitalia commonly received sexual reassignment surgery.

John Money had helped establish “new perspectives” on the psychology of gender identities and roles. He argued that gender was a societal construct, malleable from an early age.

He considered the Reimer twins as  ideal case subjects for his work! Bruce would be the first documented case of sex reassignment of a child born developmentally normal, while Brian would be the control subject, raised under identical circumstances.

Johns Hopkins’ doctors removed Bruce’s testes and damaged penis, and constructed a vestigial vulvae and a vaginal canal in their place. They opened a small hole in his lower abdomen for urination.

Bruce became Brenda, and his parents raised him as a girl. And no one told him the truth for 15 years.

He received annual checkups with John Money, who gave Bruce estrogen during adolescence for the development of breasts. Then as part of his research, Money directed the twins to inspect one another’s genitals and engage in behavior resembling sexual intercourse.

Bruce would later claim that much of Money’s treatment involved the forced reenactment of sexual positions and motions with his brother — what Money justified as the practicing healthy childhood sexual exploration. In his Rolling Stone interview, Reimer recalled that at least once, Money photographed those exercises. He also made the brothers inspect one another’s pubic areas while Money observed, sometimes alone and other times with as many as six colleagues.

Bruce recalled Money’s anger and verbal abuse if either twin resisted his twisted instructions, but he always calmly expressed how successful the transition was to their parents.

For over a decade, Bruce and Brian unknowingly provided data that was used by the Intersex Society of North to reinforce Money’s theories on gender fluidity, providing the justification for thousands of sex reassignment surgeries for children with abnormal genitals.

But the reality was, Bruce experienced severe gender dysphoria. He did not identify as a girl and resented his sessions with Money. At thirteen, Bruce threatened suicide if his parents forced him into the next annual visit.

Bruce was also bullied in school for his masculine traits, despite his hormone therapy and his indoctrination to female norms.

In 1980, when Bruce was fifteen, his father told him the truth. He then “transitioned” to his male identity, taking the first name David. By 21, he had received testosterone therapy and surgeries to remove his breasts and reconstruct a penis.  Yes, he fully “detransitioned.”

In his early twenties, he attempted suicide twice. At 25, he married Jane Fontaine, a single mother of three children, but his previous psychological trauma continued to impact his family life and employment.

Despite that, those same doctors had continued to justify sexual reassignment surgeries for the last 20 years!

Then Bruce met Milton Diamond, a psychologist at the University of Hawaii, who conducted a follow-up study with Bruce that cataloged the failures of his transition. In 1997, Bruce began speaking publicly about his experiences, describing his torturous and abusive interactions with Money.

Obviously, his revelations flew in the face of the “scientific consensus.” While expressing personal shame for his failure, John Money publicly dismissed the criticism as antifeminist and anti-trans bias!

His brother Brian suffered from depression and schizophrenia, and died from an overdose of antidepressants in 2002.

On May 2, 2004, Jane told Bruce she wanted a divorce. Two days later, at 38, Bruce shot himself.