TIL - A botched circumcision removed a young boy's penis leading to him being brought as a female as part of a study to show that children are not by nature feminine or masculine. He rejected his female reassignment and later committed suicide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/us/david-reimer-38-subject-of-the-john-joan-case.html



Submitted February 09, 2015 at 09:22PM by new-man2 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2vb4hn/til_a_botched_circumcision_removed_a_young_boys/