The Shocking Origins Of Gender Theory: John Money Conducted Pedophilic Experiments On Twin Boys Who Later Committed Suicide

Our culture has become accustomed to the idea that a person can choose his or her gender, even if that person is a child. We've been told that gender identity is entirely separate from biological sex, so even if you're born a boy, you can declare yourself to be a girl. But this modern gender theory was only recently introduced to Western society, largely thanks to Dr. John Money, a sexologist originally from New Zealand who was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Money was considered a pioneer in the field of sexology and has been dubbed the founding father of the concept of gender identity. However, the experiments he conducted to arrive at his level of so-called expertise were extremely disturbing and shocking.

Twin Boys Were Selected for John Money's Gender Identity Experiment

David Reimer was born Bruce Reimer, in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1965. He and his twin brother, Brian, were the first children of Janet and Ron, a young rural couple. At around eight months old, the twins were diagnosed with phimosis, a condition preventing the foreskin from retracting. Bruce's circumcision went horribly wrong, and, therefore, Brian was spared from the procedure.

Left with an irreparable injury, the family sought help for Bruce. Distressed, his parents found Dr. John Money, a leading sex researcher specializing in the experiences of intersex children, after seeing him on a television show. Money held the belief that gender identity was a social construct. He asserted that children were "gender-neutral" until around the age of two, providing a "gender gate" period where parents could influence their child's gender behaviorally. He proposed a radical solution: reassign Bruce's gender surgically and raise him as a girl without knowledge of his former identity. Feeling desperate and hoping to save their son from future psychological distress, the parents agreed, transforming Bruce into Brenda.

Initially, his adaptation to his assigned female identity appeared successful, seemingly validating the theories of physicians like Money, who argued that gender was a matter of nurture over nature. However, beneath the surface, Bruce was grappling with his identity.

Despite his imposed female identity, Bruce struggled throughout childhood. He was given estrogen supplements to develop feminine characteristics, and his transition was documented annually by Dr. Money. But Bruce didn't feel right in his female identity. He later recalled his childhood as distressing, saying in an Oprah interview in 2000, "I never quite fit in...Building forts, getting into the odd fistfight, climbing trees – that's the kind of stuff that I liked, but it was unacceptable as a girl."

In his teenage years, the truth about his biological sex was revealed to Bruce, leading him to choose to live as a man. He underwent multiple surgeries to reverse his earlier sex reassignment surgery, took testosterone supplements, and assumed the name "David." Despite these changes, the psychological trauma persisted. However, he managed to find love and married a woman named Jane, with whom he stayed for 14 years, becoming a stepfather to her three children.

David Reimer agreed to work with another sexologist, Milton Diamond, with the hope of preventing a similar ordeal for others. Diamond critiqued Money's theory for its lack of empirical evidence and worked with Reimer to debunk the claim that gender identity could be entirely taught or learned. Diamond's groundbreaking work, published in 1997, laid a foundation against performing sex reassignment surgery on intersex infants.

David Reimer's life was defined by a medical mishap and a contested scientific theory, and tragically, David never fully recovered from this profound turmoil and took his own life in 2004 at the age of 38.

In the years before he took his own life, David convinced his brother Brian to go public with the story to warn others about Dr. Money. Although Brian agreed to participate, his mental health deteriorated after their interviews were released. He died in 2002 by an overdose of antidepressants, just a couple of years before his brother ended his own life by shooting himself with a shotgun in the parking lot of a grocery store.

John Money Claimed His Experiment with the Twins Was Successful

As if being raised falsely as a girl wasn't traumatic enough, Dr. Money also conducted pedophilic sexual experiments on David and his brother Brian when they were only seven years old. He showed explicit photographs of genitalia to David in an attempt to convince him that he was a girl, and then he also coerced the boys into taking their clothes off and simulating sex acts on one another. He photographed the encounters, kept these sessions private from the boys' parents, and never released the materials (reportedly, the Kinsey Institute still has possession of the photos). David and Brian didn't tell their parents about this sexual abuse until they were adults.

Throughout David's childhood, he expressed many times that he was struggling to accept that he was a girl, but Dr. Money kept pushing the experiment forward anyway and even tried to convince him to get a vagina reconstruction surgery so that his private parts would look more like a girl's. Even though he was visibly having trouble with his supposed identity as a girl, Dr. Money pronounced his experiment to be a huge success. Academia and the media gushed over how great it went and how progressive and wonderful Dr. Money's gender theory was. This is when David decided to go public with his experience, as he was extremely angry about Dr. Money's publicity stunt.

Still to this day, Dr. Money is hailed as a hero and pioneer who made gender theory what it is today. Universities, various experts, and even doctors claim that Dr. Money's findings were groundbreaking. His research laid the groundwork for transgenderism as we know it today; this ideology claims that both adults and children are able to choose their gender, regardless of what their biological sex is, and nurture is oftentimes more powerful than nature when deciding your gender identity.

Of course, very few (if any) activists who promote gender theory speak about (or perhaps even know of) Dr. Money's pedophilic and predatory experiments on the Reimer brothers. Hardly anyone in the media talks about the fateful end of the Reimer twins' lives and how Dr. Money exploited them to prove his theory, even though it was a colossal failure. If more people knew the origins of gender theory, perhaps more parents would be cautious about throwing their children to the wolves and allowing them to participate in a predatory ideology that brings nothing but despair and confusion.

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