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[[File:JohnMoney.jpg|thumb|John Money]]The late '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', Ph.D. {{PhD}}, ({{LifeData |birth=1921-07-08 |birthplace= Morrinsville |birthcountry= [[New Zealand]] |death=2006-07-07|deathplace=Towson, {{USSC|MA}}) was a |deathcountry=[[New ZealandUSA]] born }}), was a psychologist, sexologist and author who was on a member of the staff faculty of {{UNI|Johns Hopkins University|JHU}}.
Dr. Money was a prolific writer. He published several books and numerous articles in the medical literature. PubMed takes 23 pages to list his articles.
Dr. Money had an interest in gender-related issues such as [[intersex]] and gender reassignment. Dr. Money created the [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/specialty_areas/sex_gender/ Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic] in 1965. The clinic started gender reassignment surgery in 1966. Gender reassignment surgery was performed on adults and also on children in apparent violation of the children's right to [[physical integrity]].
==Circumcision tragedy==
[[David 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.
Although it has long been known that boys are born with the inner prepuce fused with the underlying [[glans penis]] by a [[synechia]] and is non-retractable for an extended period,<ref name="deibart1933">{{REFjournal
}}</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 Dr. [[Jean-Marie Huot]], a general practitioner in Winnipeg.
Bruce was scheduled first. Dr. Huot bizarrely and inexplicably chose to conduct the [[circumcision]] with the use of an electrocautery device. The device burned Bruce's [[penis]] beyond repair.
Brian's circumcision was cancelled after Bruce's disaster. Brian's [[foreskin]] later spontaneously became retractable, illustrating the incorrectness of the [[phimosis]] diagnosis.
==Money's treatment of Bruce Reimer==
Bruce's parents, Janet and Ron Reimer, sought out what was thought to be the best advice on the care of a boy with no penis, so they consulted Dr. Money and the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic.
Bruce/Brenda was given estrogen to induce breast growth.
When Bruce/Brenda was 13, he rebelled and refused to see Dr. Money again, which effectively ended Dr. Money's treatment. Both Bruce/Bnenda Brenda and Brian Reimer reported feeling traumatized by Dr. Money's treatment.
==The aftermath==
Bruce/Brenda changed his/her name to David and lived as a male since age 15. He had a double mastectomy to remove the breasts created by Dr. Money's estrogen.
Brian Reimer died of a drug overdose at age 36.
[[David Reimer ]] committed suicide at age 38.
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==Death==
Dr. Money developed Parkinson's disease as he aged. He died at age 84 in Towson, Maryland in 2006.
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* [[David Reimer]]
* [[Dr. Money And The Boy With No Penis]]
* [[Man raised as a girl after losing penis to circumcision commits suicide]]
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