WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man who was the subject of a ground-breaking sex-change experiment died this week.
David Reimer's parents were advised to raise their baby boy as a girl after a failed circumcision in 1966. Reimer was clinically castrated and was subject to mental, social and hormonal conditioning to help him live his early life as a girl named Brenda.
Medical experts from around the world quietly monitored the experiment, which was thought to be of particular interest because Reimer had a twin brother.
Reimer was a social outcast as a child and suffered extreme depression. He discovered the truth about himself when he was a teenager and decided to life as a male. He underwent testosterone injections, a painful double mastectomy and a phalloplasty and started a new life as a man.
Reimer eventually married and raised three stepchildren in Winnipeg.
The flawed experiment later received worldwide publicity, and Reimer stepped out of anonymity in 2000 to reveal his story in the book As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl.
「ブレンダと呼ばれた少年」には、ジョン・マネー博士の、「性別(ジェンダー)は後天的に変えられる」という説の根拠となった「実験」は、インチキであった、ということが克明に書かれています。 博士は権威ある学者だったので、彼の影響を受けた医者に、ジェンダー固定手術を出産時に施され、それが原因で、生涯くるしんだ人の数は全世界で何千人と推定されます。 それが原因で自殺もしくは自殺寸前までいった人も全世界では100を超えるのではないかと推定されます。 Cheryl Chaseというアメリカ人女性が、インターセックスとしてComing Outし、Intersex Society of North Americaの創始者の一人になりました。 ISNAが思想的に最大の敵としているのは、ジョン・マネー博士です。 http://www.isna.orgは主に「ジェンダー固定手術は思春期になって本人が決断できるまで待て」ということを主張しています。