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Sexual Reassignment

David Reimer was a male identical twin born in Canada in 1965.  At six months, there were concerns about how he urinated and he was referred for circumcision at eight months. A urologist used cauterization and burned his penis beyond surgical repair. His parents, concerned about his future happiness and sexual function, brought him to see John Money, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University. Money was a proponent of the theory of gender neutrality, which states that gender identity develops as a result of social learning and could be changed with behavioral intervention. He persuaded the parents that sexual reassignment surgery would be in David’s best interest. At 22 months, David had his testes removed and was renamed Brenda. Money continued to provide psychological support, consulting to the family for the next ten years. The situation was considered a particularly valid test case of the theory of Gender Neutrality as David’s identical twin brother could serve as the control, and David had no abnormality of prenatal or infant sexual differentiation. Money instructed the children to engage in “sexual rehearsal play.”  He deemed the intervention a success and used it as the basis to support other sexual reassignment in other cases. The family discontinued seeing Money when he wanted “Brenda” to have a vagina constructed. According to Reimer’s account, he never identified as a girl. He was bullied by peers and never “felt female.”  By 13, he was suicidal. In 1980, his parents told him the truth about his gender reassignment. At 14, Reimer decided to assume a male gender identity, calling himself David.  He underwent treatment to reverse the reassignment.  He went on to marry a woman, but at age 38, committed suicide. 

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Do the benefits of this study outweigh the ethical concerns? 

How could this study/case have been conducted in a more ethical manner?

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< LH 1:04 Discussion Details 2020SP-PSY-140-8439 - Physiological Psychology So that he could make the decision that was best for him. This might have avoided all the pain he went through and maybe the suicide that happened as well. Reply Tiffany Kano Feb 5 at 10:53 AM In my opinion the benefits do not outweigh the ethical concerns. Yes, we were able to learn valuable information and I can agree that since it has already been done we can use that information to better help others but I do not think that it was worth ruining someones life and ultimately leading them to commit suicide. At the same time, the parents were aware of what was happening the entire time and they were consenting to it and if the doctor really did think that they were doing what is in the child's best interest then at the time of the treatment, there was nothing unethical being done. I think that at the time of the case, they handled it in the most ethical way possible as they did actually think they were doing what was best for the child and the parents had consented and were not lied to about anything that was being done to their son. Reply Larsa Hanouka Feb 5 at 1:03 PM M Dashboard the loa fit Calendar of the aturale To Do Notifications da InboxBV 1:04 Discussion Details 2020SP-PSY-140-8439 - Physiological Psychology wouldn't be able to know the difference from seeing nothing to everything. Reply Brianna Villalva Feb 5 at 10:27 AM I believe that the benefits of this study do not outweigh the ethical concerns. Looking closely you could see that the outcome was working well at first, but then the child entered his teen years and it all went down from there. People interested in John Money's work might read about David case and be sceptical and might see that it's damaging to their mental health. Therefor they will not go through with it. I believe that this study/case could have been conducted in a more ethical manner if Davids parents would have waited until he experienced what had happened to him without the study. So that he could make the decision that was best for him. This might have avoided all the pain he went through and maybe the suicide that happened as well. Reply Tiffany Kano Feb 5 at 10:53 AM In my opinion the benefits do not outweigh the ethical concerns. Yes, we were able to learn valuable information and I can agree that since it has already been done we can use that Dashboard Calendar To Do Notifications Inbox
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No the benefits of the study did not outweigh the ethical concerns. The research ought to
have produced an analysis that guarantees credibility and offers report to the scientific
community. The study failed to provide the quality and reliability of the results. The review
was not adequately distributed since the participating individuals were unable to correlate to
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