The Story of David Reimer: A Transgender Experiment

David Reimer was a boy born in Winnipeg, Canada, along side his twin brother Brian, on August 22, 1965. As the twins started growing, they showed some problems urinating due to Phimosis, a condition in which foreskin cannot be pulled back off the head of the penis. When the boys were 7 months old, their parents, Janet and Ronald Reimer, took them to get circumcised in order to fix the problem. What the parents didn t know was that the doctor in charge of the circumcision was using the method of cauteriza