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Line 16: − + − Dr. Money believed that gender was wholly learned and was a social construct. In the Reimers, he had the perfect opportunity to test his theory. It proved false. While Dr Money's accounts of the case claimed "Brenda/Bruce" had become a normal girl, in fact he behaved in a distinctly masculine fashion. He was athletic, and disliked playing with girls or girls' toys. He hated going to visit Dr. Money, who insisted that to fully understand that he was a girl, he needed to grasp the difference between men and women, and frequently spoke to him about genitalia. He took photographs of both twins nude, and even encouraged them to engage in sexual play with each other. He tried to persuade Brenda/Bruce to have a vagina constructed, and suggested strongly that he take hormone tablets in order to make him grow breasts when he was 12. All his efforts failed. − Brenda/Bruce felt traumatized and became suicidal. − Finally when he was 13, the family told him and Brian the truth. Brenda/Bruce was intensely relieved as he had felt he was going insane. Almost immediately he reasserted that he was a boy and called himself David. David received compensation money for the circumcision and used this to pay for surgery to have a new penis constructed. In his early twenties he married Jane Fontane, who had three children of her own. − − His twin Brian was badly affected by this bizarre childhood, and became mentally disturbed, then schizophrenic. After two failed marriages, he died in 2002, of drug overdose, which may have been suicide. David never managed to complete his education and had to take semi-skilled work. He was made redundant and was unemployed for a year. He sold the movie rights to his story, but lost the money when a businessman absconded with his investment. He was stricken with grief for his brother, and his marriage started to fail. David finally took his own life on 4 May 2004 by shooting himself in the head. He was 38 years old. − <ref> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dr_money_prog_summary.shtml>/</ref> − <ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11814300</ref> − <ref> The Reimer Twins: A Tragic and Unethical Sex Change Experiment. https://www.sott.net/article/373088-The-Reimer-twins-A-tragic-and-highly-unethical-forced-sex-change-experiment </ref> − <ref> https://documentarystorm.com/dr-money-and-the-boy-with-no-penis/</ref> − <ref>https://Being Brenda : by Oliver Burkeman and Gary Younge www.theguardian.com/books/2004/may/12/scienceandnature.gender</ref>
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==History==
==History==
An early and disastrous example of gender ideology was the work of the sexologist Dr. John Money, who performed "transsexual" operations in Baltimore, Maryland. He carried out a bizarre experiment from 1966 onwards, on a pair of twin boys named Brian and Bruce Reimer. The twins were born in Winnipeg in August 1965. When they were seven months old, an accident at a hospital destroyed Bruce's penis. Dr. Money advised the distraught family was that he could turn Bruce into a girl. When Bruce was 18 months old, he was castrated and an artificial vulva was created for him. The family now called him Brenda and tried to treat him like a little girl.
An early and disastrous example of gender ideology was the work of the sexologist Dr. [[John Money]], who performed "transsexual" operations in Baltimore, Maryland. He carried out a bizarre experiment from 1966 onwards, on a pair of twin boys named Brian and Bruce Reimer. The twins were born in Winnipeg in August 1965. When they were seven months old, an accident at a hospital destroyed Bruce's penis. Dr. Money advised the distraught family was that he could turn Bruce into a girl. When Bruce was 18 months old, he was castrated and brought up as a girl with the name Brenda. The experiment ended in failure, and in disaster as first of all Bruce on growing up decided to regain his male identity, then later both twins, victims of this disturbing experiment, committed suicide. [See article on Dr [[John Money]].
Since the time of Dr. Money, understanding of the [[human genome]] has advanced and we now know that a child's sex is fixed from the point of conception, and is inscribed in every cell of his or her body, including those of the brain. Each cell contains either two "X" chromosomes (indicating a female), or one "X" and one "Y" chromosome (indicating a male); this genetic marker of gender cannot be changed. Hormones present in the womb may influence secondary sexual characteristics, but nothing can change the sex of a child, or of an adult. There is a growing body of evidence that attempting to do so is harmful and cases of ex-transsexuals who regret and try to reverse their decision.<ref>http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/26/ex-transgenders-and-homosexuals-come-out-of-the-closet/</ref>
Since the time of Dr. Money, understanding of the [[human genome]] has advanced and we now know that a child's sex is fixed from the point of conception, and is inscribed in every cell of his or her body, including those of the brain. Each cell contains either two "X" chromosomes (indicating a female), or one "X" and one "Y" chromosome (indicating a male); this genetic marker of gender cannot be changed. Hormones present in the womb may influence secondary sexual characteristics, but nothing can change the sex of a child, or of an adult. There is a growing body of evidence that attempting to do so is harmful and cases of ex-transsexuals who regret and try to reverse their decision.<ref>http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/26/ex-transgenders-and-homosexuals-come-out-of-the-closet/</ref>