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A Grok3 AI search revealed the following: This is a December 7, 2022 tweet from the account Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok). It claims that the concept of “gender identity” was invented by a “pedophile psychopath” who experimented on children, leading to their suicides. The attached photo is of sexo... View MoreA Grok3 AI search revealed the following: This is a December 7, 2022 tweet from the account Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok). It claims that the concept of “gender identity” was invented by a “pedophile psychopath” who experimented on children, leading to their suicides. The attached photo is of sexologist John Money, and the linked Reduxx article is titled “John Money: The Pro-Pedophile Pervert Who Invented ‘Gender’.” Reduxx Who John Money was John Money (1921–2006) was a New Zealand-born psychologist and sexologist who worked at Johns Hopkins University. He was highly influential in mid-20th-century sexology. He coined the term “gender role” in 1955 and popularized related ideas about the distinction between biological sex and social/psychological aspects of masculinity/femininity. He did not invent the term “gender identity”—that is commonly misattributed to him. Historians and scholars trace the phrase to psychiatrists Robert Stoller and Ralph Greenson around 1963 (with some earlier related usage). Money later adopted and promoted the terminology extensively and founded the Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins in the mid-1960s. Wikipedia +1 Money argued that gender identity was highly malleable in early childhood (roughly the first 2 years of life) and heavily shaped by rearing and socialization rather than purely biological factors. This view influenced medical protocols for intersex infants (now often called disorders/differences of sex development) for decades. The David Reimer case (the core of the tweet’s claim) The most famous and tragic case associated with Money is that of David Reimer (born Bruce Reimer, 1965–2004): In 1966, as an infant, Bruce suffered a botched circumcision that destroyed his penis. His parents consulted Money, who advised surgically reassigning him as female, removing his testes, constructing rudimentary female genitals, raising him as a girl named “Brenda,” administering estrogen at puberty, and never telling him the truth. His identical twin brother Brian served as a genetic control. Money presented the case (anonymously as the “John/Joan” case) in publications and lectures as a success supporting his theory that gender is primarily learned. In reality, Brenda strongly resisted the female role from early childhood, suffered severe distress, and (after learning the truth as a teenager) transitioned back to living as male (David). He underwent surgeries to reverse some of the earlier procedures, married, and lived as a man. Both twins died by suicide: Brian in 2002 (drug overdose amid mental health issues including schizophrenia) and David in 2004 (gunshot) at age 38, after additional personal setbacks including job loss, financial problems, and marital separation. David’s case is widely regarded as a catastrophic failure that undermined Money’s claims of success. Money had continued to report positive outcomes long after problems were evident. Wikipedia +2 During annual follow-up sessions, Money directed the young twins in “childhood sexual rehearsal play.” According to accounts from the twins (detailed in John Colapinto’s 2000 book As Nature Made Him and later reporting), this included forcing them to inspect each other’s genitals, simulate sexual positions (e.g., one on all fours with the other behind), show them pornography, and (in at least one allegation) photographing them. The twins described these sessions as traumatic and abusive. Wikipedia Money’s views on pedophilia Money held highly controversial, non-pathologizing views on certain forms of adult-child sexual contact. In interviews (including with the Dutch pedophilia-advocacy journal Paidika), he stated that a mutually affectionate sexual relationship between a boy of 10–12 and an adult man would not necessarily be pathological. He distinguished “affectional” pedophilia from sadistic forms and argued that some adult-child sexual activity could be harmless or beneficial. His writings on chronophilias (age-related attractions) have been cited by groups such as NAMBLA. These positions are extensively documented and widely condemned today. Reduxx +1 Accuracy of the tweet Partly accurate on the experiment and outcomes: Money did oversee the Reimer case as a test of his theories; the children experienced profound harm; both twins later died by suicide; and Money’s published claims of success were false or misleading. Exaggerated/oversimplified on “invented gender identity”: Money was a major popularizer and theorist of gender as distinct from sex and of its malleability, but he did not originate the specific term “gender identity.” The broader scientific and cultural development of these concepts involved many people and ideas over time. The “pedophile psychopath” framing: Money expressed views that defended or minimized certain adult-child sexual relationships, and the sexual “rehearsal” practices with the Reimer twins are widely viewed as abusive. Whether the label “pedophile” (in the sense of personal sexual attraction to children) applies to Money himself is more contested in the literature; the documented statements and actions are sufficiently extreme that many critics use strong language. The image is a screenshot of a political/activist tweet amplifying a critical article about Money’s legacy. The underlying historical facts about the Reimer experiment, Money’s false reporting of success, the twins’ suffering and suicides, and Money’s writings on pedophilia are well-documented in mainstream sources (Wikipedia summaries based on primary literature and Colapinto’s reporting, peer-reviewed follow-ups by Milton Diamond and others, etc.). The tweet packages these facts in strongly polemical language.

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