David Reimer: Nature Or Nurture?

David Reimer was a subject that was selected to become an experiment without anyone’s knowledge except Dr. John Money. Dr. Money was a very popular psychologist, who was working on a case on twin brothers, Brian and Bruce Reimer, to do routine circumcisions, but the procedure had gone wrong or so the parent’s had thought. He had mistakenly burnt off the penis of one of the twin brothers while doing the procedure and that’s when Dr. Money’s ulterior motive had begun. Dr. Money had a purpose since he solely believed nurture was more significant than nature in his point of view when it was related to the gender roles.
One of the twins who had the accidental surgery was born as Bruce Reimer then later became Brenda after the sex reassignment surgery