REIMER

• WHO IS DAVID REIMER?

  the "boy who was raised a girl"
• WHO STUDIED REIMER?

  Money
• WHO IS MONEY?

  • behaviourist
  • wanted to explore gender neutrality
  • believed gender identity was based off social learning
  • THEORY: any boy could be raised a girl
• WHAT HAPPENED TO REIMER?

  • penis burnt off in failed circumcision
  • reassigned to be raised as a female (surgery)
• WHAT DID MONEY DO IN RELATION TO REIMER?

  offered psychological support

  -> also instructed Reimer and twin into sexual positions
• WHAT WAS REIMERS TWIN USED AS?

  control
• WHAT HAPPENED AFTER REIMER WAS STUDIED?

  • told truth at age 14
  • assumed male identity
  • underwent treatment to reverse assignment
  • shot himself at age 38, following trauma
• WHAT WAS THE CONCLUSION ABOUT REIMER?

  nature won the debate (genes, hormones and chromosomes pre-determined his identity)

  -> idiographic approach