SOCIAL ACTIVIST

David Reimer

1965 - 2004

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David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian man raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. The psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. The academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer's realization that he was not a girl occurred between the ages of 9 and 11 years and that he was living as a male by the age of 15. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Reimer has received more than 6,110,737 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). David Reimer is the 500th most popular social activist (down from 429th in 2019), the 374th most popular biography from Canada (down from 336th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Social Activist.

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  • 6.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, David Reimer ranks 500 out of 840. Before him are Eugénie Cotton, Malalai of Maiwand, Pretty Boy Floyd, Stokely Carmichael, Dorothea Dix, and Bagha Jatin. After him are Virginia Bolten, Gertrud Adelborg, Mari Beyleryan, Denis Goldberg, Nadia Murad, and Daniel De Leon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, David Reimer ranks 230. Before him are Johan Museeuw, Ali Lamine Zeine, Alexei Mordashov, Salou Djibo, Owen Hart, and Merab Ninidze. After him are Robert Emmiyan, Kelly Rowan, Emilio Sánchez, Askar Mamin, Jonas Åkerlund, and Darren Cahill. Among people deceased in 2004, David Reimer ranks 228. Before him are Richard Dembo, András Toma, Shirley Strickland, Michel Colombier, Neil Campbell, and Marvin Heemeyer. After him are Daniel J. Boorstin, Anna Lee, Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, André Hazes, Tom Turesson, and Albert Mol.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, David Reimer ranks 374 out of 1,622. Before him are George Romanes (1848), Geddy Lee (1953), Chief Dan George (1899), Xavier Dolan (1989), Julie Payette (1963), and Doug Rogers (1941). After him are David Baszucki (1963), Jessalyn Gilsig (1971), Naomi Klein (1970), Kelly Rowan (1965), Feist (1976), and Wyndham Lewis (1882).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Canada

Among social activists born in Canada, David Reimer ranks 3. Before him are Paul Watson (1950), and Viola Desmond (1914). After him are John Peters Humphrey (1905), Henrietta Edwards (1849), Emily Murphy (1868), Sheila Watt-Cloutier (1953), and Autumn Peltier (2004).

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