“Playing God” on the bodies of man, correcting His mistakes to conform with our earthly visions is nothing new. While the perversity of body mutilation can be explained away as, “my body, my choice,” or some libertarian spergology, the worst cases of all exist when the perversions of others are forced upon the innocent without their consent.
When twin baby boys, Bruce and Brian Reimer, were six months old, their parents brought them in for a medical check-up in regards to a case of phimosis. Phimosis is a routinely experienced disorder in uncircumcised men that typically clears itself up with time and some antibiotics. However, the doctors in this case decided to take a different approach. Using a new method called electrocauterization, the twins would both be circumcised. Bruce’s procedure was so botched that they opted not to undergo the same with Brian, and his phimosis cleared up on its own. Bruce and his now mutilated genitals were brought before a gender psychologist by the name of John Money, a pioneer in the field of gender psychology.
Money, who went on to receive the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 2002 from the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research, looked at this cluster of a situation and decided the best thing to do in this situation was further mutilate the boy into a girl. Money’s big theory was that we’re all sexually malleable from birth and that it is experience growing up that changes us. So, after surgically replicating female genitalia, he colluded with the parents of the child to raise him as a girl from that point on.
Furthermore, the twins would spend quite a bit of time with Money in his office at Johns Hopkins. Money saw this as a chance of a lifetime to prove his theories with the ultimate controlled scenario involving twins. Bruce, now Joan/Brenda, and his brother Brian were brought in for regular meetings with Money, where he’d have the twins roleplay sexual acts, take off their clothes and inspect each other’s genitals. Bruce would be instructed to get down on all fours while his brother was told to thrust at him from behind. Money would take pictures and tell his staff how successful this experiment was, and how the theories he espoused in regards to the malleability of sexuality was being proven correct. In reality, Money’s experiment wasn’t going as planned.
Bruce was not growing up to be the girl that Money intended. Instead of playing with dolls and acting like a princess, Bruce started to play and behave like any other little boy. At the age of 13, Bruce started to get depressed and said that he would take his own life if forced to see Money again. Soon after, his parents opened up about the circumstances of his upbringing and soon began to transition back to male. He went on to marry and adopt 3 children before ultimately taking his own life at the age of 38. His brother was not spared from psychological trauma either, developing schizophrenia, and later overdosing on antidepressants.
Money maintained that his experiment was a success for well over 30 years, with his work going on to inspire much of the modern gender psychology today. His 1961 book, titled Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, helped bring more acceptance to trans people and much of the psychological terminology he developed is still in use today. Even though light was shed on his botched experiment involving Reimer, Money said that media response to the exposé was due to right-wing media bias and, “the antifeminist movement.” He said his detractors believed “masculinity and femininity are built into the genes so women should get back to the mattress and the kitchen.” Other controversies surrounding him did little to detract from his contributions to psychology, such as his defenses of pedophilia.
Money died in 2006 from complications due to Parkinson’s, and there is not enough spit in this world to properly pour upon his grave. In playing God on the twin Reimer brothers, he not only destroyed their relationship with their parents, but caused such deep seated psychological trauma to both that it directly resulted in their untimely deaths.
May Money rot in Hell.
We are witnessing, not the natural end of a great human civilization, but the birth of an inhuman civilization that could never have come into being without a vast, an immense, a universal sterilization of life’s highest values
