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Wikify "David Reimer".
10 May 2004 Doctors "should stand in shame" at the lack of follow-up studies on the cosmetic genital surgeries on intersex children they have been performing for decades, proclaimed Dr. Ian Aaronson of the Medical University of South Carolina. These strong words came during a presentation titled "Gender Reassignment: Yea or Nay?" at the American Urological Association conference in San Francisco.<ref>http://www.intersexinitiative.org/news/000114.html</ref>
In fact, in 2004 the subject of the most famous case of sexual reassignment during infancy, [[David Reimer]], committed suicide at the age of 39 on 5 May 2004, a fact that should not have escaped Aaronson. It had been known for several years that the famous "John/Joan" experiment performed at Johns Hopkins University by psychologist John Money, had failed, with "Brenda" resuming a male identity and taking the name of David Reimer.<ref>http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/facultydirectory/FacultyDetails.aspx?facultyId=2201</ref>
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