Unholy Alliances: The abuse and lies that lead to the destruction of children's bodies

Though they sometimes seem like strange bedfellows, transgender and pro-abortion ideologies have been intertwined for over a century, since European activists in the 1800s aimed to separate procreation from 'sexual expression,’ inventing the notions that a person could be 'born in the wrong body’ and that all things are permissible — even for children — so long as there is 'consent.' 

These ideas have now made their way into today's K-12 education through the influence of groups like Planned Parenthood, SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States), Advocates for Youth (AFY), and the FoSE (Future of Sex Education) coalition.

While these groups teach the idea of 'gender neutrality' (gender is not fixed) and of 'gender fluidity' (that gender can change and is not limited to male or female), real people have suffered real harms from the very beginning of this social experiment.

• Read Part One: Unholy Alliances: How divorcing sex from procreation married two movements

• Read Part Two: Unholy Alliances: How sex ed gatekeepers crowned themselves king

Key Takeaways:

• Joining the likes of Alfred Kinsey, who gathered 'data' from pedophiles to support his own perverse theories about sexuality, was psychologist John Money, who saw no issues with pedophilia or adult/child incest.

• Money introduced the idea of "gender identity" and teamed up with a Johns Hopkins gynecologist who did "sex reassignment" surgeries.

• One of the most disastrous and well-known cases of harm caused by Money was that of twin Bruce (David) Reimer, who was "reassigned" and later committed suicide.

• Money is reported to have sexually abused children and produced child pornography under the guise of scientific study.

The Backstory: 

As discussed in part one of this series, German author and attorney Karl Ulrichs aimed to change society’s view of homosexuality in the 1800s, attempting to draw a distinction between homosexuality and pedophilia. However, Ulrichs failed to properly set boundaries between adults and minors,  justifying the permissibility of abortion, ‘gender transition,’ and sexual activity based on the idea that  'consent' was all that was required – for adults or children.

​Physician and activist Magnus Hirschfeld, heavily influenced by Ulrichs, helped to establish the legitimacy of the field of sexology in the minds of the German public and abroad, founding the Institute for Sexual Science (a.k.a. the Institute for Sexology) during the Weimar Republic. The Institute promoted abortions and birth control and performed primitive ‘sex-change’ surgeries and cross-sex hormones. 

In part two of the series, we discussed Harry Benjamin, an endocrinologist and Berlin native who helped to orchestrate Hirschfeld’s U.S. tour, where he met with leaders of the sexual revolution, including:

• Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger

• “Father of the Sexual Revolution,” zoologist Alfred Kinsey 

Kinsey modeled his Institute for Sex Research, later called the Kinsey Institute, after Hirschfeld’s Institute in Berlin. Kinsey’s pseudo-scientific ‘research’ was highly questionable, relying upon ‘data’ provided by pedophiles who documented their violent sexual abuse of children and infants. 

These individuals promoted the ideas that children were sexual from birth and that all things were permissible as long as “consent” was given – including pedophilia, abortions, and sex changes. 

To further legitimize sexology and the Kinsey Institute’s influence, Harry Benjamin, Kinsey’s co-author Wardell Pomeroy (later a founding board member of SIECUS), and Mary Steichen Calderone (former Planned Parenthood medical director and SIECUS founder) collaborated to create “accreditation standards” promoting their views in primary education nationwide. They succeeded with the establishment of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), which still exists today.   

The Details:

Yet with all of this, the idea of altering children’s bodies through hormones and ‘sex change’ surgeries was still only accepted on the fringes of society. This began to change when Harry Benjamin helped to open the first ‘transgender clinic’ in the U.S., bringing to his team a psychologist from New Zealand: John Money.  

John Money and the destruction of innocence

John Money, a colleague of Benjamin and Pomeroy and a sex researcher at the Kinsey Institute, quickly rose to prominence as a leading sex researcher in the United States.(1) It was Money who introduced the term “gender identity” to designate a person’s internal sense of their perceived gender – a false concept still promoted by Planned Parenthood, AFY, and members of the FoSE coalition. 

Like Ulrichs, Hirschfeld, and Benjamin, Money focused his early research on hermaphrodites and early-onset puberty. He used his flawed and limited knowledge from these cases to develop his theory that all infants are born "gender neutral," proposing that a child’s identity – distinct from biological sex – becomes "locked in" as male or female early in life during the so-called "gender identity gate."(2,3)

The New York Times (NYT) described Money’s ‘research’ as “... the most important volume in the social sciences to appear since the Kinsey reports.” Far from an endorsement, this quote should cause any person of sound mind to question Money’s research, given the unreliability of Kinsey’s own so-called ‘data.’

Money seemed far less concerned about the damage done to children than he was about ensuring that adults could have their own sexual desires fulfilled.

In agreement with Pomeroy and Calderone, Money defended pedophilia and incest in Time magazine, stating, “[A] childhood sexual experience, such as being the partner of a relative or of an older person, need not necessarily affect the child adversely.”

He viewed opposition to incest as “religious intolerance” rather than as rational opposition to the victimization of children and to a violating act that destroys natural bonds of protection, trust, and love among family members. It is widely known that incest is deeply damaging for its victims, and this has nothing to do with religion (yet it is unsurprising that Money, like his cohorts including Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, would attempt to make religion a scapegoat for sexual repression).

Along with Kinsey and his colleagues, Money also expressed support for open marriages, nudism, orgies, incest, and pornography.(4)

In 1960, Money hired gynecologist Howard Jones, who worked on fertility research in the Johns Hopkins Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, for his expertise in performing “sexual reassignments” on infants and adults.(5) 

The tragic case of the Reimer twins

Money and his cohorts did real damage to real individuals.

After a botched circumcision left one of Ron and Janet Reimer’s twin boys' genitals mutilated, the couple saw a TV interview in which John Money discussed his false idea that sexual “reassignment” was possible. 

The Reimers sought and followed Money’s advice — which was to raise their young son, Bruce, as a girl named “Brenda.” Howard Jones performed a surgical castration on Bruce and attempted to surgically create genitalia to look like that of a female. (Interestingly, Jones eventually left Money’s clinic, going on to establish the nation’s first in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic in 1979.) 

For years, Bruce and his twin brother Brian were subjected to repeated sexual abuse at the hands of Money during mandatory follow-up visits. Money was publicly celebrated for his falsified reports of ‘success’ in the Reimer case.

After years of being lied to, Bruce (who later changed his name to David) learned the truth that he was actually born a male. In 1997, the truth was exposed: the ‘twin case’ was an absolute failure. In 2004, Bruce (David) Reimer tragically ended his own life.

Despite the well known history of the Reimer case and others – along with a plethora of devastating modern day detransitioner stories, members of the FoSE coalition continue to disseminate this ideology in K-12 school curriculum, books, and digital media, while Planned Parenthood continues to promote and provide life-altering hormones to minors.

Turning a blind eye

In Money’s book, "Sexual Signatures,” he detailed his belief that pornography was an ideal tool to ‘educate’ children about the difference between males and females, stating (p. 134):

[E]xplicit sexual pictures… can and should be used as part of a child’s sex education, but where can parents and teachers find suitable pictures?… The best time to introduce such pictures is before a child’s biological clock has signaled the start of puberty.

This makes no sense at all — unless one’s goal is to groom a child for early sexual activity. And this is reportedly what Money did to the Reimer twins, forcing the boys to view explicit pornographic photos. But that was only the beginning.

According to author John Colapinto, the twins said Money forced them to strip naked and “inspect” each other's genitals, and engage in pornographic poses with each other. Money photographed it and called this child pornography "childhood sexual rehearsal play,” proclaiming that doctors had a "right to observe it." (6) 

Similar to Kinsey, Money’s ‘research’ and influence far outlived him despite serious allegations of child sexual abuse and blatant sexual depravity. His beliefs are a strong part of modern sex-ed, with its promotion of pornographic material to young children.

Money was a founding board member of SIECUS and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (SSSS), which set standards for sex education in the United States. 

The Bottom Line:

Knowing the sordid history and vile views of the founders and arbiters of today's sex education, parents should be seriously asking why U.S. lawmakers and the rest of society are still allowing groups like SIECUS and the FoSE coalition access to impressionable American children.     

Sources:

1. Colapinto, John. 2006. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl. N.p.: HarperCollins, p. 25. 

2. Money, John, and Anke A. Ehrhardt. 1972. Man & Woman Boy & Girl. N.p.: Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 21. 

3. Colapinto, p. 51. 

4. ibid, p. 156. 

5. ibid, p. 36. 

6. ibid, p. 86-88, 90.