John Money's controversial study on gender theory, which involved raising a boy as a girl, was based on misleading and exaggerated information, leading to tragic consequences and the corruption of a culture
Listen as Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. Miriam Grossman walk us through the horrific yet true story behind the Reimer twins.
The atrocity of their upbringing, branded as a successful experiment by Dr. John Money, was used as the bedrock of gender and identity ideology that has captured the western world today.
Questions to inspire discussion
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What was John Money's study on gender theory?
—John Money conducted a study where he raised a boy as a girl, based on the belief that gender is a social construct.
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How did John Money convince a family to raise their son as a girl?
—John Money convinced a blue-collar family to raise their son as a girl based on an interview he gave on television.
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What were the consequences of John Money's study?
—The consequences of John Money's study were tragic, leading to the suicide of the subject and the death of his twin brother, causing immense trauma to their family.
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How did John Money's study influence the medical community?
—John Money's study influenced the medical community, leading to the automatic castration of boys with ambiguous genitalia based on the belief in its success.
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Did John Money acknowledge his wrongdoing?
—No, John Money never publicly acknowledged his wrongdoing, despite falsifying data and causing harm to individuals and their families.
Key insights
- 💔 The tragic story of the Reamer family's circumcision gone wrong highlights the dangers of medical procedures and the devastating consequences they can have.
- 🤔 The Reamer family's decision to raise their son as a girl was based on John Money's advice, highlighting the dangerous consequences of blindly following authority figures.
- 💔 The experiment had devastating consequences for the boy, who later identified as male and ultimately died by suicide.
- 🤯 Dr. Money's experiment of raising a boy as a girl based on social construct was a failure, yet it became a famous landmark study.
- 💔 The impact of John Money's theory on the lives of those affected highlights the danger of accepting unproven theories as fact without proper scrutiny.
- 🤯 John Money's gender theory was based on a hoax, as revealed by David Reamer, who was told he was a girl for 14 years of his life.
- 💀 John Money's legacy is based on an "anti-truth" and falsified data that led to the death of two people and the perversion of an entire culture.
Clips
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00:00 😱 A family's tragic circumcision accident provided the evidence needed to support a gender theory.
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01:57 📺 John Money convinced a family to raise their son as a girl based on a TV interview, leading them to seek his guidance at Johns Hopkins University.
- John Money, a pompous and self-assured individual, convinced a blue-collar family that they could raise their son as a girl based on an interview he gave on television, leading them to seek his guidance in Baltimore.
- A young couple seeks answers from a highly respected professor at Johns Hopkins University regarding their prayers.
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04:31 👨🔬 A doctor performed a controversial experiment on a child, castrating him and raising him as a girl to prove that gender is separate from biology.
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06:18 📚 The doctor's study of raising a boy as a girl was later revealed to be based on an exaggerated and misleading narrative, as the boy always identified as a boy and preferred urinating standing up.
- A doctor conducted a study where he raised a boy as a girl, but later it was revealed that the boy always identified as a boy and preferred urinating standing up.
- Joan, also known as Brenda or Bruce, was initially portrayed as adjusting well and doing great, but the speaker suggests that this portrayal was based on an exaggerated and misleading narrative.
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09:05 📚 John Money's study of a baby raised as a girl despite being biologically male in the 1960s influenced the idea that gender is a social construct, leading to the automatic castration of boys with ambiguous genitalia, despite doubts about its validity.
- In the 1960s, during the feminist movement and sexual revolution, there was a push to view gender as a social construct, and John Money's study of a baby raised as a girl despite being biologically male was used as evidence for this idea.
- John Money's theory on gender became widely accepted and influenced various fields of science, leading to the automatic castration of boys with ambiguous genitalia based on the belief in its success, despite some scientists questioning its validity.
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11:58 📺 John Money, the creator of gender theory, used intimidation tactics to suppress dissenting articles, but his theory was debunked when one of the twins involved in his study revealed the damaging effects of being raised as a girl when he was actually a man.
- John Money, the creator of gender theory, used intimidation tactics to prevent other scientists from publishing articles that challenged his theory.
- John Money's gender theory, based on a twin study that he claimed confirmed his theory, was exposed as a hoax when one of the twins, now named David, revealed that he was actually a man married to a woman and had adopted three stepchildren, highlighting the damaging effects of being told he was a girl for 14 years.
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14:29 🚹 A boy who exhibited masculine traits was subjected to sexual abuse by a doctor who forced him and his twin brother to mimic sexual acts, leading to their refusal to continue visiting the doctor.
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15:53 💔 John Money's falsification of data in the gender theory experiment led to the tragic deaths of two individuals, immense trauma for their family, and the corruption of a culture, without any public acknowledgement of his wrongdoing.
- David Reimer, a subject of gender theory, eventually committed suicide.
- The experiment described in the video was a disastrous failure, resulting in the suicide of the subject and the death of his twin brother, causing immense trauma to their family, and the medical community mistakenly viewed it as a success.
- John Money falsified data, leading to the death of two people, the destruction of a family, and the corruption of a culture, yet he never publicly acknowledged his wrongdoing.
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