"Dr. Money and the Boy With No Penis"
David Reimer. The story of a boy who had a terrible accident. During circumcision, his genitalia was burnt off accidentally by a machine. This left his parents at a very difficult decision rather to raise him as a male or female. His parents decided it would be best to raise little David up as a girl and call him "Brenda" because it would fit the fact that he didn't have the male reproductive organ anymore. The sex of the baby was a boy but the parents were trying to make Brenda feel the gender of a girl. To be pretty, want to play with girls, and to bake like all of the other girls were things that any parent expects of a younger female. Brenda didn't have any of the aspirations that girls her age did. She liked to play with boy's toys and do young, manly things like any boy does. Her parents began to be worried for her gender identity and how she was starting to express herself and act as a young boy. Her parents decided to start making her see a psychologist, named Dr. Money, who was supposed to help her start feeling and expressing her gender in a feminine way. Dr. Money was very interested with working Brenda and her twin brother for the fact that they were twins and twin studies are gold in the psychology world. Ultimately I think that Dr. Money hurt the process of David fully transitioning into Brenda. As a psychologist he should have been more helpful and nice instead of hurtful and harsh. He was very rude towards Brenda/David during most of their meetings. Either using a rough tone or telling the children to do perverted things (such as making the twins strip naked to examine body parts) he made his clients feel uncomfortable and he crossed a line. When Brenda/David was younger he/she could never fully come out with her's/his sexual orientation. Later on in David's life he decided that he felt more like a boy and was going to be a boy. He changed his name again after Brenda. He grew older, got married, had children, and lived a normal life. Eventually he committed suicide, due to suffering years of severe depression, financial instability and a dissolving marriage.
David Reimer. The story of a boy who had a terrible accident. During circumcision, his genitalia was burnt off accidentally by a machine. This left his parents at a very difficult decision rather to raise him as a male or female. His parents decided it would be best to raise little David up as a girl and call him "Brenda" because it would fit the fact that he didn't have the male reproductive organ anymore. The sex of the baby was a boy but the parents were trying to make Brenda feel the gender of a girl. To be pretty, want to play with girls, and to bake like all of the other girls were things that any parent expects of a younger female. Brenda didn't have any of the aspirations that girls her age did. She liked to play with boy's toys and do young, manly things like any boy does. Her parents began to be worried for her gender identity and how she was starting to express herself and act as a young boy. Her parents decided to start making her see a psychologist, named Dr. Money, who was supposed to help her start feeling and expressing her gender in a feminine way. Dr. Money was very interested with working Brenda and her twin brother for the fact that they were twins and twin studies are gold in the psychology world. Ultimately I think that Dr. Money hurt the process of David fully transitioning into Brenda. As a psychologist he should have been more helpful and nice instead of hurtful and harsh. He was very rude towards Brenda/David during most of their meetings. Either using a rough tone or telling the children to do perverted things (such as making the twins strip naked to examine body parts) he made his clients feel uncomfortable and he crossed a line. When Brenda/David was younger he/she could never fully come out with her's/his sexual orientation. Later on in David's life he decided that he felt more like a boy and was going to be a boy. He changed his name again after Brenda. He grew older, got married, had children, and lived a normal life. Eventually he committed suicide, due to suffering years of severe depression, financial instability and a dissolving marriage.