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11./ He compared this to 'gender identity'. Reid was at the time the UK's biggest expert in transsexual care & provided influential expert testimony during the passage of the Gender Recognition Act (2004). Reid argued doctors should always affirm transsexuals' gender identities.

10./ His psychiatrist was an erstwhile student of Money, Russell Reid. Like Money he'd long been fascinated by people who were sexually aroused by the idea of being amputees (amnepotophiles) but by the 90s he began to argue this wasn't a fetish. It was their core inner identity.

9./ Cue another disaster. 20 years ago I was called in to help on a Horizon that was the strangest I've ever worked on. I flew out to Germany to interview a man who wanted to have a perfectly healthy leg removed. The man believed his inner innate identity was as an amputee.

8./ But rather than David's case being seen as proof biological SEX was immutable experts now tweaked Money's view of transsexuality & argued instead that our inner sense of 'gender identity' was not formed by society but entirely innate. So innate you could never change it.

7/ ..at an early age just as he'd fixed David's and doctors should do what he'd done: affirm the identity & make the body fit it. What Money didn't reveal was that David actually hated his 'girl' identity and later committed suicide. When this came out Money's career was ruined.

6./ Money later made 6 year old David and his twin brother strip naked and play sex games which he photographed. Research apparently. He wrote the case up as a huge success and said it helped explain 'transsexuality'. A transsexual's identity he said was fixed socially..

5./ Money argued 'gender identity' was a social construction that you could change in any child before the age of 2. He decided to give David hormones, create a surgical vagina and told his parents to bring him up as a girl. Here's the script for the show. bbc.co.uk/science/horizo…

4./ I came across Money when my colleagues at BBC Horizon made a heart-rending episode on the story of David Reimer. As a baby David lost his penis when his circumcision went wrong. His parents were sent with David to John Money.

3./ He was also frank that 'sexology' was unlikely ever to be fully respectable if it sounded like it was obsessed with the S word. Money went on to invent the terms 'gender role' and our friend 'gender identity', as he became the global go-to expert in transsexual studies.

2./ In 1955 Dr John Money borrowed the word 'gender' from linguistics to describe what had till then been known as 'sex'. The science of sexology was dominated by biologists and if an ambitious psychiatrist like him was ever to shine he knew he needed to elbow out the biologists.

A thread. The Scottish govt wants to enshrine the concept of 'gender identity' in law. But what is 'gender identity' and where did this seemingly innocent idea come from? Welcome to a dark tale of scientific malpractice, psychiatric abuse and...an epidemic of amputations.

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