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5 pages in length. David Reimer was not merely the victim of medical error when a failed circumcision completely redirected his life but perhaps more importantly he suffered extenuating consequences due to historical, theoretical and cultural ignorance pertaining to gender identity. The extent to which Reimer endured more than a decade of his life being filled with conflicting indicators from inside his own body/mind disconnection and those around him who blindly - if not by utter brainwashing - believed they were doing right by him is both grand and far-reaching; that he was strong enough to regain his life as a male after all the adulterated and misguided attempts toward turning him into a female by virtue of mind control and hormone treatment speaks to Reimer's more grounded understanding of how gender identity is bound most stringently by the principles of nature over nurture. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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importantly he suffered extenuating consequences due to historical, theoretical and cultural ignorance pertaining to gender identity. The extent to which Reimer endured more than a decade of his life
being filled with conflicting indicators from inside his own body/mind disconnection and those around him who blindly - if not by utter brainwashing - believed they were doing right by
him is both grand and far-reaching; that he was strong enough to regain his life as a male after all the adulterated and misguided attempts toward turning him into a
female by virtue of mind control and hormone treatment speaks to Reimers more grounded understanding of how gender identity is bound most stringently by the principles of nature over nurture.
A particularly pertinent area in which the care of David Reimer might be considered a cultural construct is in the way different societies
raise their children from infancy forward. Gender issues span a significant range of concerns based upon performance, intelligence and aptitude; however, the very fundamental components of such social struggle
stem from whether nature or nurture commands greater credit and why. Dr. John Money of Johns Hopkins University - who in the 1960s "introduced the theory that children are
not born with a gender identity, but rather form an understanding of gender through their social upbringing" (Haas, 2004, p. 41) - tapped into the common understanding of that era
indicating how parents, without realizing it, address their male children differently than they do their female counterparts, which serves to establish a significant disparity in the manner each gender ultimately
develops as well as approaches - and is received by - society. Experts in the field of child development have consistently found how this incongruous approach parents have toward
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