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