A Boy Raised as a Girl Killed Himself 19 Years Ago Today

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'David, born Bruce, lost his penis to a botched circumcision as an infant in 1966. After this event, his parents, Janet and Ron, though they lived in Canada, were referred to the leading “sexologist” at the time, John Money. Money was a psychologist who ran a clinic at Johns Hopkins University, where surgeons performed pediatric genital constructions. Genitals, then and now, are what we rely on to define an infant’s sex. It’s easier to "make a hole" than to "build a pole,” as one surgeon put it, so Money advised that Bruce be castrated and have his genitals modified to look as typically female as possible, then be raised as a girl, while keeping the real story secret.'