Ban Intersex Surgery for Children: Yes or No?

[Rev. Rye]

Yeah, the story of David Reimer is a depressingly fucked-up one. And looking through the Wikipedia article again, I just discovered that, as icing on the already fucked-up cake, he made his twin brother simulate sex with him and even took photos of this horseshit once or twice. Seriously, this reminds me so much of the last 15 minutes or so of One Hour Photo so much it's not even funny.

Or were you talking about my story just before his?

I was referring to David Reimer's story, and erroneously thought it was the same story you posted about earlier, but then I read again to realize they are different accounts. Both stories are distressing for sure.

I wish I could find that documentary or that case elsewhere. For some reason, googling "removing healthy child testicle" just throws up a bunch of resources about testicular torsion or questions about "will I still be able to perform after I get my testicular cancer treated?" A little further shows stories about mothers worried about kids who had unhealthy testicles removed. The case I think was in the 1990s, early 2000s at latest. And while I'm going on vague memories, I suspect that the mom looked a bit younger than this:

I think it was on TLC back when they were still somewhat educational.