History Informs
The first non-intersex child to undergo sex reassignment and the first child born via in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the US have something in common. The same physician, Dr. Howard Jones, was involved in their care as babies, albeit 16 years apart and at different institutions. In light of this fact and in hindsight of the markets and research that have exploded since the births of these babies, David Reimer in 1965 and Elizabeth Carr in 1981, it is important to explore these historical events.
Have scientific quests and market greed won out over God’s design or the nature of man born male or female? ‘Transgender’ might be many things, from a cultural destabilizer to a social contagion, to a medical scandal and more, but evidence also shows it plays into the quest for the scientific creation of man himself.
David Reimer’s penis was burnt to a crisp during what was to be a routine circumcision as a baby in 1966 becoming the first non-intersex child that the medical establishment attempted to ‘transition’ into the opposite sex. In 1967 Johns Hopkins (JHU) gynecologist Dr. Howard Jones castrated Reimer leaving him sterile and without the ability to produce testosterone. The procedure was medically unnecessary but came about due to the unfortunate introduction of the Reimer family to JHU psychologist John Money and his budding theory of gender identity. The theory said that identity was socially constructed, and a child could be raised opposite his/her biological truth. That Reimer was a twin was a boon permitting an experimental control and the opportunity for publishing if the experiment were successful.
That the experiment was not successful would not be widely known until 1997 when the New York Times (NYT) ran an article on the front page titled “Sexual Identity Not Pliable After All, Report Says.” This followed Milton Diamond and H. Keith Sigmundson’s report debunking Money’s thus far glowing reports on the Reimer case (then known as the John/ Joan case) published the same year.
Author John Colapinto penned an article in Rolling Stone later that year explaining the horrid details surrounding the case. He followed up in 2000 with the book As Nature Made Him providing important historical context. ‘Gender medicine’ was just beginning to lay the groundwork to broaden markets beyond the small population of those born intersex and those confused by their sexed reality (usually middle-aged men). The book is not about that, but it is a must read to begin to comprehend the circumstances surrounding the field today.
Then and Now
Money’s lewd behavior, his obsession with all things sex and sexual behavior, his ability to whip up theories and stifle dissent, his revered status in academia, his publishing prowess (complete with misleading accounts), the way a family desperate for a fix for their unfortunate circumstances hung on the man’s every word, and the professionals that followed orders despite the evidence before them standout in Colapinto’s book. Also notable were the tortuous childhood Reimer endured and the family’s turmoil, as well as the scarce instances of common sense that did prevail enabling Reimer to denounce the false identity bestowed upon him while affording the world a glimpse of the truth.
The Reimer’s pediatrician cautioned against the recommendation that their baby boy be turned into a girl. Was it common sense that prevailed in his thinking, something lacking among the professional class today? Kentaji Brown Jackson could not answer when asked what is a woman at her 2022 Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court justice. It was not that Brown Jackson did not have an answer. She could not show her common sense. The concept of gender identity had taken hold across institutions and the question was a political hot button. For decades industry and the federal government were working towards the proliferation of the gender industry. Countless families are suffering today as the Reimer family did over 50 years ago. Common sense has been captured by identity politics for market gains.
Diamond was a student in the 50’s and 60’s with an in interest in sex differences from both biological and psychological perspectives. He was one of the few willing to question Money’s theory. Sigmundson was a psychiatrist who worked with Reimer as a child and one of the few fortunate additions to his difficult childhood. From their 1997 abstract (referenced in the NYT article) it is clear concerns at the time surrounded the potential harm being perpetrated on intersex children. The concern was well founded and Colapinto allots the topic of intersex considerable space in his book. Both Diamond and Reimer hoped the facts would protect intersex patients from unnecessary early intervention. They were wrong.
It was not until the early 1990s that the SRY gene that determines the biological sex of embryos was discovered, but by the end of the 19th Century it was known that chromosomes played a role in sex determination. The sexual revolution, prevailing feminist theory of the day, and the fact that small number of people are born with genetic anomalies rendering them not obviously male or female at birth (intersex) gave legs to the possibility that gender identity should and /or could be manifested via drugs and surgeries. Fiction would prevail over facts in the decades to follow.
The academic elite baked gender identity theory deep into institutions. Industry saw dollar signs. Rich white men saw opportunity in global markets. It has expanded across the western world. To extricate it would be a daunting task.
Intersex
Intersex history informs that since that the 50s genetic anomalies have largely been viewed by industry as challenges to overcome often to the peril of patients. JHU opened an intersex clinic in 1952 as genital surgeries became possible. Initially adults and older children sought services but Money’s influence altered this. Medically necessary and cosmetic surgeries became conflated and patient ages reduced. Money and Jones cofounded JHU’s adult Gender Identity Clinic in 1966. It closed in ’79. Public outcry was loud and the evidence lacking. Intersex surgeries pressed on serving industry well. Puberty blockers, developed in the early 80s, were added to the toolbox of the medical model. By 1993 enough intersex patients were pushing back and had formed the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) which operated until 2008.
Today the ISNA website sends visitors to another NGO called InterACT. ISNA professed to understand that intersex and transgender could not be conflated. “These two groups,” they state, “should not and cannot be thought of as one.” One relies on physical truth, the other on make-believe. They are nothing alike. The truth is both ISNA and InterACT have conflated these issues. They claim intersex is an issue of bodily autonomy and with a broad brush paint the world. No one thinks that people with body integrity disorder should be eligible for limb amputations save for the surgeons keen on amputations. Sex organs are a different story. Markets say so.
By 2006 Arcus Foundation, an LGBT and great apes NGO, was providing funding to ISNA. They held their first symposium that year as part of the larger Gay Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) annual conference in San Francisco. Never mind gay, lesbian, and homosexuals do not have genetic or hormonal anomalies as intersex do.
InterACT was founded by lesbian Anne Tamar-Mattis as Advocates for Informed Choice with help from Equal Justice Works and Echoing Green. Seed money from Ms. Foundation followed in 2011 and then a grant from Liberty Hill Foundation’s Queer Youth Fund.
All are organizations drilling progressive social justice like a stake into the heart and soul of America. Americans in turn are left with broken families, injured children, and the need to seek alternatives from institutions left in ruins. Gender critical professionals have little understanding that it is not enough to claim intersex is different when advocacy groups backed by significant funding fight for “gender affirmation” of healthy but confused people indoctrinated by theory.
Tamar-Mattis is a lawyer who had long worked with LGBTI communities infiltrated by the medical agenda at hand. She was the first director of San Francisco’s LGBT Community Center. Her partner is physician Suegee Tamar-Mattis, the founder of the transgender clinic at Santa Rosa Community Health Centers. Today Suegee offers psychedelic-assisted therapy for LGBTI. Nothing says iatrogenic better than ketamine induced gender-affirming care! For whatever good people like the Tamar-Mattis’ of the world do for intersex children, they commit grave harms by affirming those confused by their sexed reality when born male or female.
Those on the side of truth no more want intersex people to suffer at the hands of overzealous professionals than want medicalization for false gender identities. InterACT though has been captured by industry in support of gender-affirming care.
InterACT’s 2024 financial report provides the answers.
In “All Roads Lead to Arcus” Jennifer Bilek claims, “Arcus drives the body-denying ideology of transgenderism into every sector of society.” It is certainly the top guiding hand at InterACT.
“Synthetic Sex Insurance” provides insight to understand the premier role the state of CA has played in launching the gender industry. As for the Tides Foundation, run by another homosexual billionaire Drummond Pike, “[It] creates a legal firewall and tax shelter for foundations and funds political campaigns often using dubious tactics,” according to Bilek in “The Dark Money Behind the Trans Movement.”
InterACTs community partners provide more insight. Among them are Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Watch, GLMA, GLSEN and others that make regular appearances in posts because they also fuel the agenda at hand.
Despite decades of pushback on unnecessary surgeries for intersex children, it has only been since 2020 when Lurie Children’s became the first children’s hospital to halt child intersex surgeries that things have begun to change all while they push for gender affirmation of others. The medical model presses on.
Broadening Markets
Desexing : Medicine as Means has exposed many means of broadening the synthetic sex markets which are worth a quick review.
MTF Transactivist Riki Wilchins launched the political influence organization GenderPac in 1996 pushing Congressional support of the transgender-identified with industry support. GenderPAC became True Child and the gender industry expanded beyond its mostly autogynephilic roots to a quest for young patients.
Family Acceptance Project was launched in 1999 selling the idea of supporting LGBTQ children. By the year 2000, the National Center for Child Trauma Stress Network (NCTSN) via government funding was operating under the organizing institution known as the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS). Experts profess that not supporting LGBTQ identities in children equates to trauma. FAP is part of the collaborative called the National SOGIE Center. Space is limited for details but consider the image below and their AFFIRM Youth guides (2021):
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has reportedly ended their gender program. Duke (NCCTS’s other half) updated their sexual and gender minority website. Information is currently scarce.
Among Duke initiative’s in 2025 was a talk on healthcare access for transgender populations. A Duke Global Health Institute visiting scholar spoke. She had established the 1st USAID funded transgender clinics in sub-Saharan Africa. Woke colonization is their goal whether it is on US soil or abroad. Note the wording: “Supporting Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Wellness in the Southern US and Global South.” Arcus also likes the term “global south.” Growing markets is their game. They will not go lightly.
All while FAP and NCTSN have been selling ‘acceptance’ through the years, the legal empire for LGB rights was being erected with T+ being added to the mix by mid 90s. The agenda included not just marriage but protecting the nebulous concept of ‘gender identity’ as well as the right to medically acquire children, i.e. ‘family creation.’ Organizations like the American Bar Association and the LGBT Family Law Institute (launched in 2009) took on these quests along with the alphabet media supporting industry goals.
In 1980, Reimer’s first genital surgeon, Dr. Howard Jones, opened the first IVF clinic in the US. The first baby, Elizabeth Carr, was born the following year. Read on to learn how David’s life evolved and how industries in ‘family creation’ have broadened for inclusive markets since her birth.
"No one thinks that people with body integrity disorder should be eligible for limb amputations save for the surgeons keen on amputations." and "Will they be able to leave people alone today or in the future?"
I often wonder if genital mutilation will morph into limb amputations--easy enough if the amputee fetishists make it "cool" and "trendy". And the "gender" ghouls have no desire to leave people alone... it's very clear their wish is to continue their gruesome experiments, and goodness knows where it will all lead.
Thank you for yet another very informative article. As the mother of a female victim of “gender affirming” surgeries and an Aunt to a precious boy born with XXY chromosomes, this information is an inevitable double stab to my heart. My nephew with XXY chromosomes - a cruel condition, tragically died from aspiration due to pneumonia at age 34. This was after 2 surgeries to remove his testicles because of severe groin pain. Doctors never discovered the root cause of his pain. My daughter's doctors still won't write that she is disabled, which denies her federal money owed to her. They allegedly verbally acknowledge her disability, yet won't write it down. Why? The government who paid to sterilize and mutilate my perfectly healthy daughter should pay dearly. Thank you. ❤️