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Bruce Peter Reimer was one of two healthy identical twin boys born in Winnipeg, MB, [[Canada]] on 22 August 1965. His twin brother was Brian Reimer.

The two boys were erroneously diagnosed with [[phimosis]] at the age of six months ~~although non-retractile [[foreskin]] is normal in boys~~.

Although it has long been known that boys are born with the inner prepuce fused with the underlying [[glans penis]] and is non-retractable for an extended period,<ref name="deibart1933">{{REFjournal

|last=Deibart

|init=GA

|title=The separation of the prepuce in the human penis

|journal=Anat Rec

|date=1933-11

|volume=57

|issue=

|pages=387-99

|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/deibert/

|quote=

|pubmedID=

|pubmedCID=

|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1090570409

|accessdate=2023-03-12

}}</ref> the two boys were improperly and erroneously diagnosed with [[phimosis]] at the age of six months.

Although there were no valid medical indications for circumcision, the parents scheduled the twin boys for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] surgery by Jean-Marie Huot, a general practitioner in Winnipeg.

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 Bruce Peter Reimer was one of two healthy identical twin boys born in Winnipeg, MB, [[Canada]] on 22 August 1965. His twin brother was Brian Reimer.
-The two boys were erroneously diagnosed with [[phimosis]] at the age of six months although non-retractile [[foreskin]] is normal in boys.
+Although it has long been known that boys are born with the inner prepuce fused with the underlying [[glans penis]] and is non-retractable for an extended period,<ref name="deibart1933">{{REFjournal
+ |last=Deibart
+ |init=GA
+ |title=The separation of the prepuce in the human penis
+ |journal=Anat Rec
+ |date=1933-11
+ |volume=57
+ |issue=
+ |pages=387-99
+ |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/deibert/
+ |quote=
+ |pubmedID=
+ |pubmedCID=
+ |DOI=https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1090570409
+ |accessdate=2023-03-12
+}}</ref> the two boys were improperly and erroneously diagnosed with [[phimosis]] at the age of six months.
 Although there were no valid medical indications for circumcision, the parents scheduled the twin boys for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] surgery by Jean-Marie Huot, a general practitioner in Winnipeg.