In 1965 Bruce Reamer and his brother were born. The twins had a healthy pregnancy until Bruce went to get circumcised. During the procedure Bruce's penis had gotten burnt off. The parents were informed of the incident and were faced with the horrible decision on how to raise there son that no longer had the male extremity. While watching T.V Bruce's parents came up with the idea to rise Bruce as a girl and call him Brenda. Brenda was raised as a girl until the age of 13 and through out the first thirteen years of her life she and her twin brother had to visit a psychologist known as Dr. Money. Dr. Money wanted to study the twins and the way Brenda was being raised. As she got older she was starting to realize that she did not have the same preferences as other little girls. Brenda wanted to play with her brothers toys, not dolls. She was a tomboy. Dr. Money tried to make Brenda under stand that she was a girl because she did not have a penis like her brother and later offered her surgery so she could be physically a girl. After Brenda turned 13 her dad confessed to her that she was in fact a boy and explained what happened to him when he was a baby. At the same time his mother told his twin brother that he was not a brother to a girl but in reality a boy. After the boys were told there life was difficult from there on out. They both ended up killing themselves, Bruce by shooting himself in a parking lot. Dr. Money was no help and I personally believe the he disrupted both of the boys lifes to an extreme. I believe that the boys would have not killed themselves if Bruce was raised as a boy and told the truth from the beginning. Dr. Money was selfish and his study was useless in a sense that his book that he wrote about the boys was a lie.
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