David Reimer

David Reimer was born in Canada in 1965. At eight months old, he was brought in for a standard procedure: circumcision. Unfortunately, during the process his penis was burned off. This was due to the physicians using an electrocautery needle instead of a standard scalpel. David´s parents went to psychologist John Money. Money said that the simplest solution was a sex change and reconstruct david a vagina. David was now called Brenda. John used david as his own case study and wanted to determine that nurture, not nature, determined gender indentity.

This experiment is 100% unethical. It is unethical because the phsychologist John Money used David as his own private case study. He convinced David´s parents to do what he wanted and reconstruct David a vagina and give him women hormones and estrogen. This is also unethical because the person being tested had no knowledge that he was an experiment nor his parents.