Reimer, David Rar Apr 2026

At age 14, after learning the truth about his birth, he immediately chose to live as a male and took the name David. He later underwent surgeries to reverse the reassignment and married in 1990. Legacy and Death

Known as the "John/Joan" case, Money publicly reported the reassignment as a success, using it to justify thousands of similar surgeries on infants with atypical genitalia.

David Reimer (1965–2004) was a Canadian man whose life became a pivotal and tragic case study in psychology and medical ethics regarding gender identity.