David Reimer

The story of Bruce/Brenda/David Reimer is tragic reminder of just how relatively little we truly understand about the human body. It is humbling to realize that for all our scientific breakthroughs we can still make catastrophic mistakes. Born a male, Reimer suffered a botched circumcision procedure that mutilated his genitals beyond repair. Under the advice of their physician, his parents allowed their son to undergo sexual reassignment surgery and raised him as a female. Reimer's case was haled

focuses around the extent of influence from each and the possibility that one of these factors has the ability to erase the other. This debate is the central theme in As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl, an account of the case of Brenda Reimer recounted by

reproduction capacities. However, the “regime of ‘sperm and egg cell carriers’ is going astray” (Preciado 105). In As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, John Colapinto reports David Reimer’s frustration of gender identity as a result of faulty and unethical medical procedures. Born as Bruce Reimer, David is accidentally circumcised, deprived him of a functional male reproduction system. In regulation of imposed societal guidelines of masculinity, he “is incomplete, physically defective,

After watching the video and reading the chapter about David Reimer, I concluded that early on in his life, the environment he was raised in had more to do with his gender than his genetics did. His parents raised him as a girl, and he learned to act like a girl from the beginning of his childhood. David’s parents and his psychologists’ had a huge role in developing, and persuading him into liking female things and becoming a girl. He was definitely a product of his environment in his early childhood

To begin, Butler examines gender, sex, psychoanalysis, and medical treatment of intersex people. The main focus was the David Reimer case. The case was about a boy who was reassigned to a girl. His name was changed to “Brenda” (enter source here). The family decided to wait to remove the penis fully until the child was older. Butler states, “Between the ages of eight and nine, Brenda found herself developing the desire to buy a toy machine gun” (303). Brenda soon started to realize she was not a

Nature vs. Nurture: David Reimer In the summer of 1965 at a hospital in Winnipeg, Canada. Janet Reimer gave birth to identical twins, Bruce and Brian. The two twin boys were born healthy, but at the age of six months both twin boys had difficulty urinating. At that time the doctors recommended that Bruce and Brian undergo circumcision in order to solve the problem. Unfortunately for Bruce the medical team used an unconventional technique of cauterization involving an electric burning device called

David Reimer’s experience exhibit how family, peers, and his surroundings have influenced with his gender role. Mr. Reimer was born as a male; unfortunately, electricity malfunction during Bruce, David Reimer as a baby, circumcision. As a result, his entire penis was burned off. Bruce has a twin brother named Brian. During the 1960s, plastic surgery wasn’t strong enough to get a penis transplant. However, Dr. Money came up with a sex change theory: to raise Bruce as a female. This experiment will

traits may exist; however, the environmental factors are the real origins of our behavior. This includes the use of conditioning to induce a new behavior to a child, or alter an unlikely behavior being shown by the child. David Reimer David Reimer was born 1n 1965. David was born a twin named Bruce. Bruce and his twin brother Brian had circumcisions done at eight months of age. Brian’s circumcision was a success, but Bruce did not have the same luck. His penis was irreversibly cut off by accident

also refusing to complete the genital surgery and was threatening suicide. 4. How did Brenda's life change after she found out the truth? After Brenda/David found out the truth about his gender he said he was relieved to find out that he wasn't going insane. He decided to identify as a boy and eventually underwent surgery to have a penis. David received money for the circumcision and he decided he wanted a family. He wanted to become a husband and

Is becoming a genderless alien possible? Vinny Ohh is a 24 year old male who has undergone 110 cosmetic procedures, he now wants to undergo surgery that would make him genderless. He claims he wants to become a “genderless alien”. Vinny Ohh should not be permitted to make surgical changes to become a “genderless alien” because the surgery has never been performed before and doctors don’t know how it would affect his body in now and in the long run. Although, it would be interesting to see if it