Talk:Johns Hopkins Hospital

History of Child Sex Reassignment

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In 1965, Johns Hopkins became the first hospital in the nation to formally establish a sex change program for newborn (mostly male) babys born with "genital abnormalitys" much to public shock. The procedure for males included cutting off the testicles and penis and constructing an artificial vagina sometimes complemented by estrogen injections with recommendations to treat the child as a female. The hospital was seen as one of the big driving forces behind the procedure at the time. The hospital also created a lab in which theories about nature vs nurture and body vs mind clashed in fascinating and ferocious ways. Johns Hopkins Hospital ceased this practice for the most part, along with many others, after the sex reassignment patients as adults began to strongly and publicly oppose the sex change done to them as infants, with most reverting to their original genders in later life. Also cited were radically higher suicide rates, severe psychological damage and identity crisis in adulthood lack of solid facts and general public uproar and controversy caused by the practice. The most noteworthy and separate case of David Reimer (who later committed suicide and wrote a book on being manufactured into a female titled "As Nature Made Him The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl") was a big driving force behind the radical decline of the gender reassignment of newborns in the US and Canada. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk • contribs) 04:36, 9 May 2015 (UTC)