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A Warrior For Human Nature

Now here's a poor guy who couldn't catch a break.

First, he's gelded in a circumcision accident, then he's raised as a girl at the instigation of a psychologist who believes that gender is a social construct, then after rebelling against this forced gender swap at the age of fifteen, he has to undergo reconstructive surgery and remove the breasts that grew as a result of the hormone treatments, and last week, as a result of a financial fraud that impoverished him, he committed suicide.

As the article says, he made a valuable contribution to science, providing major evidence against the Blank Slate hypothesis, and showing the folks who think that gender is infinitely malleable to be terminally deluded. Thanks to him, perhaps no other little boys will have to go through what he went through.

RIP, David Reimer.

Posted by Rand Simberg at May 11, 2004 03:31 PM
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It's _sex_, not gender. Gender is what words have; sex is what animals have.

Posted by Aleta Jackson at May 11, 2004 05:08 PM

I think you're confusing what animals have, with what animals are...

Gender is a perfectly appropriate term here.

Posted by Rand Simberg at May 11, 2004 05:12 PM


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