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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.
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 non-retractile [[foreskin]] is normal in boys.
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.