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Reimer case on BBC TV 'Horizon'

Tuesday 2nd November 2004
This Thursday BBC TV's doumentary series "Horizon" is to air the case of David Reimer, the boy who was brought up as a girl against his will after a botched circumcision. David took his own life at age 38 earlier this year.

Following the circumcision in which David lost his entire penis it was recommended by Dr John Money, a New Zealander living in Baltimore and he was a psychologist at Johns Hopkins, that David should be castrated, given feminising surgery and brought up as a girl. Thus Reimer suffered not only a botched circumcision but also a forced sterilisation.