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The Dedication
The book Why Gender Matters is a very interesting book that helps people understand how people think the way they do. The author, Leonard Sax, is extremely dedicated to the work he does and who he does it for. Leonard Sax dedicates this book to the memory of David Reimer. Bruce Reimer was born one of a set of identical twins. At the age of seven months, his mother noticed that he and his brother were having trouble urinating, so she took them in to be circumcised. Bruce was first to undergo the operation, but tragedy struck, when a power surge caused the needle used to cauterise the wound to burn off most of his penis. Instead of repairing the organ, doctors suggested that Bruce's gender should be reassigned; hypothesizing that gender identity is socially determined and therefore malleable, they found in his identical twin Brian -- whose circumcision was forgone and, as his condition went away on its own, ultimately unnecessary -- an ideal "control" case. The parents agreed, and the child was thenceforth raised as a girl, Brenda.
After reading this, I began to feel sorrow for the poor man. To live most of your childhood life believing that you’re a girl, but being cast out and made fun of because you’re different from the rest of the girls. Then to find out that he is really a boy must have been so humiliating. The fact that this book is dedicated to David Reimer is interesting because he relates so much to what the book is about.
You see the doctors believed that gender was determined by the society in which the child is raised. They believed that if the parents raised David as a girl, then he would ultimately begin acting like a girl.
The book Why Gender Matters is a very interesting book that helps people understand how people think the way they do. The author, Leonard Sax, is extremely dedicated to the work he does and who he does it for. Leonard Sax dedicates this book to the memory of David Reimer. Bruce Reimer was born one of a set of identical twins. At the age of seven months, his mother noticed that he and his brother were having trouble urinating, so she took them in to be circumcised. Bruce was first to undergo the operation, but tragedy struck, when a power surge caused the needle used to cauterise the wound to burn off most of his penis. Instead of repairing the organ, doctors suggested that Bruce's gender should be reassigned; hypothesizing that gender identity is socially determined and therefore malleable, they found in his identical twin Brian -- whose circumcision was forgone and, as his condition went away on its own, ultimately unnecessary -- an ideal "control" case. The parents agreed, and the child was thenceforth raised as a girl, Brenda.
After reading this, I began to feel sorrow for the poor man. To live most of your childhood life believing that you’re a girl, but being cast out and made fun of because you’re different from the rest of the girls. Then to find out that he is really a boy must have been so humiliating. The fact that this book is dedicated to David Reimer is interesting because he relates so much to what the book is about.
You see the doctors believed that gender was determined by the society in which the child is raised. They believed that if the parents raised David as a girl, then he would ultimately begin acting like a girl.