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Bruce Reimer Research Paper

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The video is about a boy 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 began living as a male with no penis. After several months later, the mom finally met a doctor named Dr. Money on a television programme that give her some hope that he can turn Bruce into a daughter. After couple months later, Dr. Money told them to treat Bruce as a girl and don’t tell him that he was ever a boy or else the progress will fail. So the family calls him Brenda and treat him like a girl. This also helps Dr. Money because this will give him more practice so he can change more people’s sex.
Couple years later, Dr.Money wrote a book on Bruce but he did not use her real name in the book …show more content…

I also feel sad for the parents to see that both of their children burned in front of them and they could’ve prevented it from not lying to them in the first place and let them grow up as what they wanted to grow up as. I also believe that Dr.Money knew what he was doing and he wanted nothing more than fame for his theories and for his books. He did not care about how it would affect David, and he just wanted everyone to know the theory worked. Dr.Money was a sick doctor, who took advantage of the parents and their situation. What he did was a crime and he deserves to pay for what he did to the family and he should’ve done prison time for what he was doing was not

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