Bruce Reimer

The story of Bruce/Brenda/David Reimer is tragic reminder of just how relatively little we truly understand about the human body. It is humbling to realize that for all our scientific breakthroughs we can still make catastrophic mistakes. Born a male, Reimer suffered a botched circumcision procedure that mutilated his genitals beyond repair. Under the advice of their physician, his parents allowed their son to undergo sexual reassignment surgery and raised him as a female. Reimer's case was haled

Reimer’s frustration of gender identity as a result of faulty and unethical medical procedures. Born as Bruce Reimer, David is accidentally circumcised, deprived him of a functional male reproduction system. In regulation of imposed societal guidelines of masculinity, he “is incomplete, physically defective, and that he must live apart” (Colapinto Chapter 1).

named Bruce Reimer who was born as a normal healthy male but that changed on August 22, 1965, when they went to get a circumcisions but it went wrong during the operation and during it, the penis was burned off during the circumcisions and it got removed accidently. After that he was sexually recast as a female after his penis was accidentally removed during a circumcision and they said it was the electrical equipment fault and none of the doctors who were doing it. Every since that day, Bruce Reimer

focuses around the extent of influence from each and the possibility that one of these factors has the ability to erase the other. This debate is the central theme in As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl, an account of the case of Brenda Reimer recounted by

Is becoming a genderless alien possible? Vinny Ohh is a 24 year old male who has undergone 110 cosmetic procedures, he now wants to undergo surgery that would make him genderless. He claims he wants to become a “genderless alien”. Vinny Ohh should not be permitted to make surgical changes to become a “genderless alien” because the surgery has never been performed before and doctors don’t know how it would affect his body in now and in the long run. Although, it would be interesting to see if it

Various medical conditions that do not fit the binary norms of the reproductive systems are considered as intersex. Intersex individuals may have pronounced male or female reproductive anatomy but are mismatched internally. They may also have anatomies that phenotypically differ than the normal. Some consider patients whose injured genitals were reconstructed and reared following the newly-assigned genitalia as intersex (Diamond and Beh, 2008). A conservative count of about 1 in 1,500 to 1 in 2,000

Once upon a time there was a girl named Joana and she lived in a kingdom that everybody in the village lived for. Joana had a bestfriend named Melissa and Melissa was the only girl in the village that knew that Joana lived in the kingdom. Melissa was born with disabilities meaning that she can't walk so she's on a wheelchair and she doesn't look like the rest of the kids, people sometimes think that she a beast. The kingdom is the biggest building in the village and nobody can go in there except

One’s appearance is the first thing people judge when they come into contact. Some people immediately wonder about his or her status, weather that person comes from wealth, what their job is, are they married, do they have children, are the not wealthy. In the poem, short story, and drama being analyzed, the appearances of the characters and families are not what one may think. In fact, they are the complete opposite, one may say even deceiving. “Their minds shift and ready, like dunes” (Berger)

Dianne Lam 1328 words 9100 St. Charles Rock Road St. Louis, MO 63114 (314) 493-6100 lamd710@ritenourschools.org Hostage: Part 1 by Dianne Lam It’s 11:15 P.M. on a humid, Thursday night. My group of friends are sitting in my basement, brainstorming on what to do to pass time. As everyone is rambling on, I glance over at Don, who’s isolated himself outside the circle to scroll along his

Analysis of Bruce Springsteen's Song "Devils & Dust" In times of war it is quite common for people to start questioning their values and their actions and be unsure of the path they are taking. This is common because to protect our values we often are told that we have to take actions that conflict with those values. One example would be how to protect our liberties we must sometimes restrain those liberties during treacherous times. However, the ultimate question is whether or not going against