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David Reimer

1965 - 2004

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David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian boy raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. The psychologist John Money oversaw the case and incorrectly reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. The academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer's realization that he was not a girl occurred between the ages of 9 and 11 years and that he was living as a male by the age of 15. Well known in medical circles for years anonymously as the "John/Joan" case, Reimer later went public with his story to help discourage similar medical practices. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. David Reimer is the 564th most popular social activist (down from 502nd in 2024), the 516th most popular biography from Canada (down from 374th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, David Reimer ranks 564 out of 840. Before him are Aslı Erdoğan, Jerry Rubin, Mina Ahadi, Emily Davies, Bram Fischer, and Maggie Gobran. After him are Devdas Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi, Josefa Francisco, Bruno Manser, Manilal Gandhi, and Fred Hampton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, David Reimer ranks 317. Before him are Paul Heyman, Kevin Dillon, Luc Alphand, Andrew Stanton, Nasser El Sonbaty, and Ali Lamine Zeine. After him are Daniela Mercury, Yacouba Isaac Zida, Simona Brambilla, Roschdy Zem, Maria Schrader, and Thomas Helmer. Among people deceased in 2004, David Reimer ranks 268. Before him are Lennart Strand, Yordan Radichkov, Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, Germano de Figueiredo, Ugo Ferrante, and Jiří Weiss. After him are Zurab Sakandelidze, Isabel Sanford, Sylvi Saimo, Victor Argo, Yasutomi Nishizuka, and Alexey Korneyev.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, David Reimer ranks 516 out of 1,622. Before him are John Stanley Plaskett (1865), Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Paul Grégoire (1911), Frank Fisher (1901), Hilda Strike (1910), and Colin Munro MacLeod (1909). After him are Taylor Kitsch (1981), Robert Benson (1894), Chris Taylor (1950), Robert J. Sawyer (1960), Emmanuelle Chriqui (1975), and Bernie Shaw (1956).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Canada

Among social activists born in Canada, David Reimer ranks 4. Before him are Paul Watson (1950), Viola Desmond (1914), and John Peters Humphrey (1905). After him are Emily Murphy (1868), Henrietta Edwards (1849), Sheila Watt-Cloutier (1953), and Autumn Peltier (2004).

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