On the left is David Reimer and on the right is Brenda Reimer. They’re the same person, as a child he was a victim of a botched circumcision, so on the advice of one doctor, the family decided to raise him as a girl. At age 14 he began living as a boy again. David Reimer (1965 – 2004) was a Canadian man born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Originally named Bruce, he was one of a pair of identical twin boys. At eight months old, during a circumcision procedure to treat phimosis, his penis was irreparably

He was born as a boy. But was forced to live as a girl. A botched procedure when he was 8 months destroyed his reproductive organs. And a “trusted doctor” took advantage of the situation to experiment on him. John Money claimed that gender identity was a social construct. But his methods couldn’t be more wrong. | The Enigma