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Jul 1, 2023 · Bringing illuminating context to their crusade, Cohen (a former “Dateline NBC” producer) introduces a 1999 segment about David Reimer, whose penis was badly damaged during a botched ...
Jun 29, 2023 · The contrast between Reimer’s archived grief and the hope of the film’s interview subjects is powerful, effectively demonstrating the life and death stakes of intersex liberation. Every Body ...
- Julie Cohen
- Teo Bugbee
- 92 min
Jun 30, 2023 · Directed by Julie Cohen. Rated R. 92 minutes. Playing at Bay Area theaters. Cohen also reconstructs the tragic story of David Reimer, who unwittingly served as an experimental gender subject for doctors during the 1960s. After David’s botched circumcision as a baby, physicians performed what would turn out to be a disastrous sex reassignment ...
Jun 21, 2023 · Money’s experiment on David Reimer — which was later discredited — paved the way for a cruel and authoritative approach to thinking about gender: Instead of giving children the opportunity ...
- Lovia Gyarkye
Jun 22, 2023 · Cohen was first attracted to the subject by the tragic story of David Reimer, a Canadian man who, in an infamous medical experiment overseen by physician Dr. John Money, was raised as a girl for most of his first 14 years of life. Reimer, after speaking out about what happened to him, killed himself in 2004.
- jcoyle@ap.org
- Film Writer And Critic
Aug 8, 2006 · The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine—and a total failure. The boy's uninjured brother, raised as a boy, provided to the experiment the perfect matched control. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male.
Jun 23, 2023 · The John Money Experiment involved David Reimer, a twin boy raised as a girl following a botched circumcision. Money asserted gender was primarily learned, not innate. However, David struggled with his female identity and transitioned back to male in adolescence. The case challenged Money's theory, highlighting the influence of biological sex on gender identity.
