Adventures in Baby-Making
Background
In the previous post readers learned about David Reimer, born in 1965 at Winnipeg’s St. Boniface Hospital. Reimer was the first non-intersex child industry attempted to medically transition to the opposite sex after suffering genital damage and being introduced to Johns Hopkins psychiatrist John Money’s toxic gender theory. The attempt at girlhood failed and Reimer reverted back to his birth sex as a teenager. He endured horrific psychological and physical torture ultimately committing suicide at the age of 38.
The NYT’s recent 6 part podcast The Protocol on youth gender medicine was desperate to guide the discussion from the birth of puberty blockers in the early 80’s as a beginning point in understanding the background in transitioning children to the opposite sex. They further seemed to claim that if the American model had just followed the more diligent Dutch model gender medicine might somehow be above reproach. These claims are not true.
Infamous UCLA gender doctor Johanna Olsen Kennedy makes note in the NYT podcast that UCLA had an HIV youth program that was in the business of transitioning “older adolescents and young adult HIV transwomen” before they did “gender care.” She makes the claim patients were asking for “hormone related care.” “It is not widely publicized,” she says, “but we have been doing that care since the early 90s.” The Los Angeles LGBTQ+ historical archive organization Queer Maps provides information that shows it was not just transwomen who were being transitioned at UCLA but also “gender diverse children, adolescents, and young adults.” Olsen Kennedy offers 1991 as a date. Queer Maps offers 1992.
UCLA was among the earliest youth gender programs. They are also partners with Duke in the National Council for Child Traumatic Stress where they traumatize families for not supporting medical transition.
Many posts discuss how the AIDS/HIV agenda has been a launching pad for transgender medicine. AIDS NGOs were quickly captured by industry and have gone on to advocate for transgender rights to medicalization. Intersex advocacy follows the same pattern.
Industry had long been transitioning intersex children rather than allowing them to reach maturity prior to making decisions about medical care. Cosmetic surgeries became the standard of care with support from major medical associations. The lives of intersex children often unraveled as they matured and came to realize what had been done to them. They were treated as lab rats. Doctors lied to them. Parents were encouraged to do the same.
NGOs were launched fighting for the bodily autonomy of intersex. They conflated intersex and transgender populations despite the fact that one involves genetic and/or hormonal anomalies and the other involves normal males and females. They advocate against cosmetic medical procedures for intersex while advocating for cosmetic, elective, and unnecessary medical procedures for the trans-identified.
This only makes sense when financial backing is understood. Arcus Foundation is the top funder playing a leading role in this industry capture. Arcus was founded in 2000 by Jon Stryker, heir to Stryker Medical Corporation, and has funneled over 500M into “equity” for LGBTQ and great ape populations. In reality, under the guise of civil rights Arcus pushes for the dissociation of sexed reality for global markets. For more details on the Reimer case, intersex, and industry read Identity Capture and Family Creation. A significant part of rising global markets is baby making.
On Making Babies
Gynecologist and surgeon Howard Jones was cofounder of the Johns Hopkins intersex clinic. He also performed Reimer’s genital surgery as an infant. After leaving JHU he opened the first US in vitro fertility (IVF) clinic, The Jones Institute, in 1980. Elizabeth Car was the first IVF baby born on US soil at the clinic. [Edit April 15, 2026: Howard Jones was also the doctor that
By the time Elizabeth Carr was born 16 years after Reimer via IVF in 1981, Reimer was on his way to detransition. “Detransition” is not a word used in Colapinto’s account (As Nature Made Him) and there is no reason it would be. The word would not be commonplace until more than a decade later when, despite the published truth about the Reimer case, countless young people have desisted after coercion into Money’s theory spread far and wide. With broken bodies, more will desist. Desist or not, markets are booming for fertility services for those in iatrogenic need.
In the year of Reimer’s birth (1965), Dr. Howard Jones, had another project. He had invited British scientist Robert Edwards to JHU to work with with him and his wife (Georgeanna) in an attempt to fertilize a human egg in vitro. This work was not new. Scientists had been tinkering with rabbits for years leading to a bunny birth in 1959.
By 1978 the 1st IVF baby was born in England with Edwards and Patrick Steptoe as the leading scientists. Competition was ripe and country after country followed suit – Australia, US, France, Sweden, Austria. By 1983 donor eggs became possible. Soon so did cryopreservation of eggs, and various drug regimens for ripe eggs and mediums for embryo growth, as well as egg retrieval techniques. Then came sperm retrieval, ultrasound guidance, and surrogacy by 1985. Genetic testing, designer babies, and more followed. It never ends because there are always new hurdles to cross.
All while novel practices are exploding so is the growth of potential customers with LGBTQ feeding the market. The controversy over IVF research in the UK led to the establishment of the private Bourn Fertility Clinic in 1982. Today the clinic offers transgender options.
Structuring clinics for “inclusivity” is commonplace making for a more lucrative business model. According to a 2020/2021 report there are 103 licensed fertility clinics in the UK. More than half are private clinics. Does the public know all that goes on at these places? Plenty are LGBTQ+ friendly.
US Markets
In 2024 Carr was invited to Biden’s State of the Union Address. In an interview with the Boston Globe she explains IVF is not just for the infertile but, “It’s for anybody who wants to build a family that’s LGBTQ,” adding it is also for those wanting genetic testing and chemo patients. In other words, Carr has the talking points down.
Carr was in DC in support of the Access to Family Building Act (HR 7056) introduced in 2024. If passed it would give citizens the right to access artificial reproductive technologies (ART) and the right to use or dispose of the “genetic material.” It also provides rights to providers and insurers for these purposes. It would be the first law that exempts itself from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). It might be scarier yet as it allows a changing definition of ART as advancements are made with the only stipulation that a comment period is first afforded.
The zeal for research and markets never seems long tempered by moral concerns. Consider that scientists in China are attempting to transplant a uterus in male rats. They claim it could, “cure absolute uterine factor infertility of transgender.” “The function to be a true woman remain[s] unsolved,” they say. They suggest uterine donation among ‘transitioning’ females a possibility. If ART is to be, succinct definitions might be important.
Consider also that within 10 years scientists expect to be able to transform human blood or skin cells into eggs or sperm via a process called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG). One of the biggest IVG contenders is the Silicon Valley backed Conception Biosciences.
The global fertility market is projected to double from 45 to 92 billion by 2033. The US leads and is heavily backed by the tech sector. 40 years of social change feeds into the market explosion. There are now over 500 fertility clinics in the US.
Today Carr works at the 2017 genetic testing startup Genomic Prediction in NJ. The company tests embryos at 1K a pop. They assign polygenic scores in the hope of picking ‘the best one’ for implantation. Like IVF, it is controversial on countless fronts. Partnerships and collaborations have formed with other companies including Progyny.
Progyny was the first company to provide an app for fertility and family building. Options exist for trans and nonbinary identifying individuals. Major insurance companies like Cigna and Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) have partnered with Progyny. Cigna’s greed for LGBTQ markets cannot be denied. They have a transwoman leading efforts, an LGBTQ medical directory, and more. SOGI data collection is fast becoming a tool to build out these markets. There are enough confused and broken bodies for services.
Consider images from some of Genomic Prediction’s partners. These services are widespread and backed by leading tech investors.
Carr also runs a consulting practice. Her website offers “trusted” resources. Resolve is one. It is the leading advocacy organization of the fertility industry founded in 1974. Today it holds an “inclusive definition of infertility” respecting “all family-building options.”
Her employer Genomic Prediction/ Lifeview was a partner in her 2022 book project, Under the Microscope. So was Brown Fertility an IVF clinic in FL. Dr. Samuel Brown studied under the Jones at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine that the couple established at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1980. Elizabeth Carr was born a year later.
In 1984 the the institute added the Jones Foundation. They have provided more than 30M in grants to other research institutions in the field. By 2021 the clinic had transitioned into the Shady Grove Jones Institute (SGF Jones Institute). They can now be found 11 states, Washington, D.C. and Chile. The SGF Jones Institute has responded to the color revolution. They recently held an LGBTQIA+ family building seminar.
In As Nature Made Him, Colapinto does mention that Jones at first resisted the idea of elective adult castrations and reconstructions. Money with the help of Harry Benjamin (of HBGIDA and WPATH fame) and his “woman” patients swayed Jones in favor. The same year the Reimer twins were born (1965), JHU performed their first sex change operation. Jones wielded the scalpel.
A Tragic Ending Among a Booming Industry
David Reimer and his twin brother were born at Winnipeg’s St Boniface hospital in 1965. Today the hospital provides a listing of mental health resources including for those 2SLGBTQIA+. Did anyone know what 2SLGBTQIA+ even was in 1965 when the boys were born? Today such services pollute the healthcare system of every town across the US and Canada.
Klinic Community Health is provided as a 2SLGBTQIA+ resource. It was founded in 1970 when David was 5 years old and being raised as a girl. He had just started kindergarten where he was already regularly ridiculed and socially struggling. In 2009 the health center received funding for Manitoba’s first transgender clinic. Their Trans Health Klinic Welcome Package includes fertility services among the smorgasbord of drugs, surgeries, and supplies for the alternative lifestyle campaign.
It is fair to say David would not have liked this, but he did not live to see this day. In 2004 Reimer died of suicide at the age of 38.
Bruce was David’s birth name. At age 14 he rechristened himself David taking the namesake David in the Book of Samuel. David had a Goliathan task ahead of him to reconnect with his truth.
He endured multiple surgeries including a double mastectomy in 1980. The LGBTQ+ cultural revolution though was also well underway, and an industry was intent on other endeavors. Things are far worse than 1 clinic supplying drugs and surgeries today in Manitoba. Age limits are lax. Surgeons readily affix fake breasts to healthy males. By 1979 the first modern ‘top surgery’ removing the breasts of a female in the US marked an historical event that has led to hundreds of surgeons now advertising for such services.
David went through the second of 2 phalloplasties in 1982. Today cutting edge technology enables the splicing and dicing of the male penis with the Da Vinci robot. Today over 200 surgeons advertise for male vaginoplasty while 23 surgeons advertise to perform female phalloplasty.
John Money’s theory of manifesting an opposing gender identity in David Reimer failed. It would have been far easier to pull the plug on programs across the board forever whether old, young, male, female, heterosexual, intersex or anything in between when he denounced the lie in ’79. It was the same year JHU’s adult Gender Identity Clinic was shut down. Instead money was funneled into an agenda to dismantle sexed reality. Instead ambitious experts continued to have their way with young intersex patients and expand from there. Today a capitalist pay to play system harms not just one boy, a few adult males, or intersex children but far more. Today the Goliathan task ahead is far and beyond what anyone could have imagined then.
The push and pull of modern influence and city affluence courses through Reimer’s tale. Today this is replaced by digital devices that charm youth with the lies of Money’s gender theory. Youth accept their own psychological torture as players in a massive social engineering experiment. The cost is high.
Intersex patient and founder of ISNA, Cheryl Chase, was prescient when quoted in the 1979 NYT article that exposed John Money’s false claims about the Reimer case. She did not believe that the exposure of the truth about the case, would stop surgeries. Phalloplasty was in its infancy then and conversions to girlhood the norm. Chase predicted that to temper that problem more would be turned into boys by attempting phalloplasties. “They cannot conceive of leaving someone alone,” she claimed. Indeed she was right. Will they be able to leave people alone today or in the future? Can the the competition be stopped?
To find out more about Johns Hopkins gynecologist Howard Jones and his myriad patients:
All the kids who are getting "gender affirming care" now won't be doing any baby making: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/removing-the-possibility-of-normal
The levels of iatrogenic harms are so large, they are barely measurable for both men: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/gender-affirming-surgeries-are-not and for women: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/mutilating-yourself-into-manhood
Not to mention the men who feel they have a right to conduct medical experiments on women by using babies as props as part of their "gender affirming care" protocols: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/inducing-magical-thinking
And then there are the "pregnant dads" who believe that their own mental health is more important than the wellbeing of their children, so happily continue taking the fetal teratogen called testosterone throughout their pregnancies: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/pregnant-dads-are-the-center-of-their I always thought that the most amazing hallmark of femininity was pregnancy but if you are living in a delusional state, I guess anything goes.
Strange how THE most female experience a woman can go through, doesn’t trigger gender distress . . . .