Money, Power, and Gender

Gender-mandering

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few decades, everyone has heard the mind numbing expressions of “gender is a social construct,” “biological sex doesn’t determine gender,” and other similar phrases thrown around by everyone from your average female college student to the CDC. It’s only a matter of time before Republicans throw in the towel and conform to the will of the uniparty.

What most of these college girls don’t know is that much of the gender curriculum taught in their intro anthropology class traces back to one man: John Money. Magnus Hirschfeld, the Jewish German sexologist known as the “father of transsexualism,” is also somewhat influential in this field, but we’ll cover him at a later time.

Money was originally born in New Zealand and, after studying at the Psychiatric Institute of the University of Pittsburgh, eventually became a professor of pediatrics and medical psychology at John Hopkins University in 1952.

With that basic intro out of the way, buckle up because this one is going to be a wild one.

In 1955, Money was credited as the first person to use the word “gender” as opposed to “sex” to draw a distinction between biological characteristics and behavioral attributes that differentiate males from females. His work popularized terms like “gender identity” and he helped found the world’s first gender identity clinic at John Hopkins in Baltimore in 1966.

While many of his ideas are constantly being echoed in today’s times, one that has been left behind is his idea of the “gender identity gate," in which kids at the age of two year old pass through this gate which locks in their gender for the rest of their lives. I wonder why the alphabet soup mob decided to leave that one out?

After composing all of these flimsy ideas, Money ran into a problem: all he had were ideas, and ideas only go so far in the scientific community. To solve this problem, he initially began testing his theories on intersex babies, but that wasn’t enough for him. Although he yearned to experiment on children with normal sex characteristics, there is one obvious question that comes to mind: which parents in their right mind would let him experiment on their healthy and normal child? And at this point in the story enters David Reimer.

Money is the Root of All Evil

David Reimer, who was officially born as Bruce, was born along with his identical twin, Brian, in 1965 in Winnipeg, Canada to Janet and Ron Reimer. The parents soon realized that both kids had trouble urinating, as they were soon diagnosed with phimosis. After consulting with doctors, the parents were reassured that circumcision was the sure fire way of fixing it.

Despite seeming like a routine procedure, the circumcision for David was badly botched, causing him to suffer severe injuries to his genitalia. Janet and Ron were devastated, as doctors told them he would not be able to consummate his marriage or have normal heterosexual relations. All hope for a normal life for David was lost; that was until the Reimers saw a television program in which a doctor by the name of John Money was claiming that the concept of “boys and girls” are constructed by society and that boys can be raised as girls and vice versa.

While raising your son as a girl is obviously not ideal for most parents, the Reimers were desperate, had nowhere else to go, and were convinced by the confidence of Money’s bold claims. Given that the Reimers now had a potential route for David to live a semi-normal life and Dr. Money had the test subjects he had been longing for, it seemed like a match made in heaven. However, what the parents did not know was that David was about to go through hell for the rest of his life.

Despite originally being swayed by Money’s confidence, before any surgeries or treatments, the Reimers actually began to have cold feet and they heard their conscious telling them that this wasn’t the right decision. However, they faced relentless pressure from Money, as he insisted that David, who was 22 months at the time, must complete the surgery immediately before the gender identity gate was closed forever. With the elevated levels of persistence and urgency, the Reimers caved and proceeded.

David began to undergo the treatment that we sadly see children go through too often in contemporary society: the switch from male to female genitalia, the use of hormones (in this case estrogen), the transition to a different name (Brenda), and the shift from a boy’s lifestyle to a girl’s.

From the outside looking in, everything seemed to be going fairly smoothly in the Reimer household. Although being teased a bit for being a “tomboy,” David was going through a relatively normal childhood in which he played with dolls, wore dresses, and seemed to be comfortable in his body. Essentially no out outside of immediate family knew about the procedure and even his twin brother Brian was convinced that Reimer had been a girl all along.

But sometimes looking from the outside can be deceptive and doesn’t always reveal the truth.

David had always felt like there was something wrong, something off that he couldn’t explain. Both he and his brother routinely expressed that there was something “out of the ordinary” about David. While originally acquiescing to his mother’s requests to align to the female lifestyle, he eventually began to reject his mother’s offers to put makeup on him and would tear the lacy clothes that she dressed him in.

Interestingly enough, at age 11, David described to his psychologist that he had an intense fear that something had been done to his genitals.

Despite the growing field of evidence that this experiment had gone horribly wrong, John Money was not going to let this ruin his career and legacy and was going to do whatever it took to prevent the situation looking like a failure.

Early on in their childhood, David and Brian made yearly visits to see Money in his office in Baltimore. If you couldn’t tell that Money was a dark, sick, and twisted individual, it is about to become glaringly obvious.

Money would probe the twins about the progress regarding sexual development, and by the age of six, he began questioning them about their sexual desires and preferences, as well as showing them naked pictures of other children and adults fornicating.

Additionally, he would tell the twins to take off their clothes and not only inspect each other’s genitals, but would force the two children to engage in sexual acts while he watched.

After “experimenting on” (abusing) them for a few years, in 1972, Money published his first findings in Man and Woman, Boy and Girl, as he illustrated how extraordinarily feminine Reimer turned out, using cherry-picked anecdotes from David’s parents to craft his arguments.

Immediately after the work was published, the media began to fawn over his work and label him as a revolutionary figure in fields like sexology, sociology, anthropology, and more. A New York Times book review labeled the book as “the most important volume in the social sciences to appear since the Kinsey reports.” I guess some things never change, as the NYT having the worst possible takes is just a part of the human experience, no matter which era you’re living in.

As Reimer grew older, the alienation from his body became more and more torturous. Any mention of hormone treatment or surgery led to reactions so fierce that any conversation regarding those subjects resulted in Reimer bolting from the room, screaming.

The meetings with Money eventually came to an end after two separate incidents: the first being Reimer running to the top of a building and threatening to kill himself after speaking to a transsexual (who was sent by Money to reassure him), and hiding in his basement after Money made an appearance at their house.

Around the age of 15, about a year after he had stopped living as a girl, David’s father came clean and told him the entire story. After this, David officially switched his name from Brenda to David, began taking male hormones, and had his breasts surgically removed.

Despite two attempted suicide attempts before the age of 21, life had become much brighter and more enjoyable. In 1990, he married Jane Fontane and adopted her three kids. It seemed as if David had overcome this inexplicably traumatic childhood and was able to build a normal life with his wife and kids. But unfortunately for David, he couldn’t catch a break, as the good times would not last very long.

Let the Truth be Told

Milton Diamond, a sexologist and rival to Dr. Money, had been reading Money’s works and believed that the experiment on Reimer was flawed and felt the need to uncover the truth. To do so, he contacted Keith Sigmundson, one of a few people who oversaw Reimer’s psychiatric treatment, and both of them worked together to reveal what had really happened.

The paper was released by the two of them in 1997 and included interviews with Reimer as well as his wife and mother. The work was obviously controversial within the scientific community, as they had bought in to Money’s ideology for a handful of decades up to that point. Despite the controversy, it was able to convince a large proportion of pediatricians that Money’s hypothesis about gender neutrality was fundamentally flawed.

As the new millennium came around, things began to go downhill for Reimer. He had always had a difficult relationship with his parents that turned especially sour in the early 2000s. Also, in addition to being unemployed, his brother tragically overdosed on antidepressants in 2002, as some argue that his death was accidental while most agree that it was most likely suicide. Then, on May 2nd, 2004, his wife asked him for a divorce.

This was the last straw for David, and after a lifetime of pain, struggle, and abuse, David took his own life with a shotgun two days after his wife asked to separate.

Despite private sources saying that Money was “mortified” by the case, he never commented publicly about Reimer’s tragic end to his life.

After fully analyzing the life of David Reimer and works of John Money, it is definitely in the progressives’ best interest to not associate all of their current agendas with its rightful founder.

Unsurprisingly, the “grassroots” ideology that has corrupted the West and its youth was not only constructed by a borderline demon but is entirely built on a lie.

The sinister trans movement, especially with regards to children, is a prime example that there are truly dark forces at play in this world and that we are in the midst of a spiritual battle.

I’ll end the story with a genuine question: is it a coincidence that the first transgender public figure was also a man who began his life with the name Bruce before “transitioning” to a female?

Let me know what you think.

Thanks for reading and until next time.

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