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David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian man raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy.
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl is a biography of David Reimer, written by John Colapinto and published February 20, 2000, by Harper Perennial.Reimer was a Canadian man born male but raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy.
In 1966, a botched circumcision left eight-month-old Reimer without a penis. Money persuaded the baby's parents that sex reassignment surgery would be in Reimer's best interest. At the age of 22 months, Reimer underwent an orchiectomy, in which his testicles were surgically removed. He was reassigned to be raised as female and his name changed ...
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A former Florida doctor, who was found liable for $100 million last week in a medical malpractice case centered on an infant's botched circumcision, has been linked to ...
Former Dr. Berto Lopez lost a malpractice case recently with a $100 million verdict after a boy's circumcision was botched. ... Her 8-year-old girl learned that she now had a baby brother, but ...
The probable cause affidavit filed against Tyler in court claimed that on Nov. 27 he “knowingly performed a circumcision" in his home on a child under the age of 18, which caused the child to ...
Butler examines gender, sex, psychoanalysis, and the way medicine and the law treat intersex and transgender people. [1] Focusing on the case of David Reimer who was born male and reassigned to be raised as a girl after a botched circumcision, Butler reexamines the theory of performativity that they originally explored in Gender Trouble (1990).
John Colapinto (born in 1958) is a Canadian journalist, author and novelist and a staff writer at The New Yorker.In 2000, he wrote the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, which exposed the details of the David Reimer case, a boy who had undergone a sex change in infancy—a medical experiment long heralded as a success, but which was, in fact, a failure.