David Reimer: Difference between revisions
Correction. +Ref.
(Refs) |
(Correction. +Ref.) |
||
|
For several years, Money reported on Reimer'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 [[sex reassignment surgery|surgical reconstruction]] even in non-[[intersex]] cases. Money wrote, "The child's behavior is so clearly that of an active little girl and so different from the boyish ways of her twin brother." Notes by a former student at Money's lab state that, during the follow-up visits, which occurred only once a year, Reimer's parents routinely lied to lab staff about the success of the procedure. The twin brother, Brian, later developed [[schizophrenia]].<ref name=bbc-horizon-tv-followup/>
Reimer had experienced the visits to Baltimore as traumatic rather than therapeutic, and when Money started pressuring the family to bring him in for surgery during which a vagina would be constructed, the family discontinued the follow-up visits. From 22 months into his teenaged years, Reimer urinated through a hole that surgeons had placed in the abdomen.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} [[Estrogen]] was given during adolescence,
==Adulthood==
===Bibliography===
{{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}}
: {{cite book
|last=Balthazart
|first=Jacques
|author-link=Jacques Balthazart
|year=2012
|title=The Biology of Homosexuality
|location=New York
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199838820.001.0001
|isbn=978-0-19-983882-0
|ref=harv
}}
: {{cite journal
|last=Bockting
| |||