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[[David Reimer]] (birth name Bruce) was born an identical twin in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At 6 months of age both boys were mistakenly diagnosed with [[phimosis]], a natural condition of the infant [[penis]]. The so-called doctor [[Jean-Marie Huot]] botched the first [[circumcision]] completely destroying Bruce's [[penis]]. Twin Brian's circumcision was canceled; he made a full recovery from his "condition" of phimosis, without further treatment.
Shortly after the botched circumcision Bruce's mother Janet saw a television interview with [[John Money]], a psychologist from John Hopkins Hospital who worked with cases of gender identity, transsexuality and [[intersex]] conditions. Janet wondered if perhaps she had found an answer to the horrific situation her baby was in, could Bruce be raised as a girl?
When David's story came to national attention in 1997 John Money's reputation was over. However, [[Jean-Marie Huot]], the doctor who destroyed David's infant [[penis]], was rarely mentioned. In fact many of the mainstream articles reporting David's story even failed to report that David's penis had been destroyed in a botched circumcision. Some only said "the baby lost his penis in an accident" thereby shifting blame from the circumcision "doctor" to the baby! Almost every report of David's story focused on miss-assigned gender and intersex conditions, even though David was neither. Our culture cannot face the truth, that David's natural condition had been misdiagnosed, his [[penis]] needlessly destroyed, and that [[circumcision]] was to blame.
In 2004 David took his own life. This report show how even after his [[death ]] the blame remains firmly on John Money and mistreatment of intersex conditions, while the real criminal, the circumciser [[Jean-Marie Huot]], M.D., gets away without notice, even six years after his death.
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