Oct 14, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 17 segments
As soon as David Reimer learned the truth, he knew what he wanted to do. He began presenting as a man. He got a new name. He started testosterone therapy. He underwent surgery. But just when it looked…
Norman CarusoHostPreviously on an Old Timey podcast.
Janet and Ron Reimer took their infant twin boys, David and Brian, to the hospital to be circumcised, but during David's circumcision, his penis was burned off.
Experts had little to offer the distraught young parents, but then they saw a man on TV, Dr. John Money.
He'd gotten his PhD from Harvard, where he'd studied intersexuality, and he'd just helped open Johns Hopkins University's first ever gender identity clinic.
Money shared his theory that parents could choose their child's gender identity, provided that they made the change early enough in the child's life, gave them the right surgeries, and really committed to the bit Out of desperation, the Reimers met with Dr.
David always knew deep down that he was a boy, and since none of the adults in his life would tell him the truth, David struggled socially and emotionally.
By the time he reached puberty, David rebelled against any attempts to feminize him.
One was the quintessential feminine girl and the other a rough-and-tumble boy.
Finally, after years of doctors always keeping David in the dark about his own medical history, one psychiatrist decided that enough was enough.
Previously on an Old Timey podcast.
Janet and Ron Reimer took their infant twin boys, David and Brian, to the hospital to be circumcised, but during David's circumcision, his penis was burned off.
Experts had little to offer the distraught young parents, but then they saw a man on TV, Dr. John Money.
He'd gotten his PhD from Harvard, where he'd studied intersexuality, and he'd just helped open Johns Hopkins University's first ever gender identity clinic.
Money shared his theory that parents could choose their child's gender identity, provided that they made the change early enough in the child's life, gave them the right surgeries, and really committed to the bit Out of desperation, the Reimers met with Dr.
David always knew deep down that he was a boy, and since none of the adults in his life would tell him the truth, David struggled socially and emotionally.
By the time he reached puberty, David rebelled against any attempts to feminize him.
One was the quintessential feminine girl and the other a rough-and-tumble boy.
Finally, after years of doctors always keeping David in the dark about his own medical history, one psychiatrist decided that enough was enough.
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