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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. | 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 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/ | |||
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|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. | 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. | ||