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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. Well known in medical circles for years anonymously as the "John/Joan" case, Reimer later went public with his story to help discourage similar medical practices. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Reimer has received more than 5,744,458 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). David Reimer is the 429th most popular social activist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Canada (up from 364th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Social Activist.

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  • 47.02

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  • 24

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  • 3.59

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  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, David Reimer ranks 429 out of 538Before him are Lucy Stone, Mumia Abu-Jamal, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Neerja Bhanot, Ruby Bridges, and Jack Sheppard. After him are Joseph Wresinski, Bagha Jatin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Charu Majumdar, and William Luther Pierce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, David Reimer ranks 200Before him are Johan Museeuw, Ruud Hesp, Ted Raimi, Jean, Count of Paris, Paulina Porizkova, and Hailemariam Desalegn. After him are Yukihiro Matsumoto, Rachida Dati, Shinichirō Watanabe, Michael E. Brown, Andrew Stanton, and Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 2004, David Reimer ranks 195Before him are Joan Aiken, Jan Sterling, Sara Lidman, Oscar Heisserer, Balamani Amma, and Janet Akyüz Mattei. After him are Laurance Rockefeller, Lea De Mae, Kenneth E. Iverson, Bagrat Shinkuba, Madeleine Robinson, and Marcelo González Martín.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, David Reimer ranks 337 out of 1,350Before him are Matt Craven (1956), Stu Hart (1915), Billy Bishop (1894), R. B. Bennett (1870), Robert Borden (1854), and Nia Vardalos (1962). After him are Stephen Amell (1981), Robert Joy (1951), Victor Jory (1902), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Anna Paquin (1982), and Howie Mandel (1955).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Canada

Among social activists born in Canada, David Reimer ranks 4Before him are Paul Watson (1950), Viola Desmond (1914), and John Peters Humphrey (1905). After him are Emily Murphy (1868) and Autumn Peltier (2004).