• Soullioness@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    That’s quite interesting in an awful way. Do you remember any details like the name of the documentary or of who did that?

    • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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      9 months ago

      The Doctor’s name was John Money, he was a Sexologist working at the Kinsey institute, the boy’s name was David Reimer. David’s parents went to see Dr. Money after a botched circumcision who decided to use that situation to test his theory of nature vs nurture (he believed that Gender identity was maluable when people are young) and had them reassign David as a girl, and said it was key that David never be told he was born a boy. Yeah pretty fucked up stuff.

      If you want to see it yourself the documentary was BBC Horizon, episode was called “The Boy who was Turned into a Girl”, it has not aged well, they use the word “Transsexual” in it to describe trans women.