ABSTRACT
David Reimer committed suicide aged thirty-eight on 4 May 2004. David’s twin brother acted as the ‘control’ of Money’s experiment since he was genetically identical to the subject, and had been born anatomically identical to his brother. Both children were subjected to the same medical scrutiny during childhood. In 1994, Money seemed to indicate a softening of his position when he acknowledged that the causes of gender identity disorder lay in any combination of the subject’s genes, in utero hormonal experience, post-natal socialization and post-pubertal hormonal determinants. Anecdotal and clinical evidence is amassing that indicates substantial risk with such surgery of loss of erotic sensation and orgasmic function, infertility, life-long urinary pain and dysfunction, pelvic infection and endocrine malfunction, and psychological trauma. Professor Milton Diamond took part in the Horizon documentary. Diamond’s, Swaab’s and Gorski’s findings separately challenged Money’s claims of infant psychosexual neutrality.
