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Brenda at age two, shortly after her surgical sex reassignment.
Janet with her twin baby boys, Brian and Bruce. The cataclysmic accident that would lead to Bruce’s sex change was still some months in the future.
Brenda and Brian as toddlers.
Brian and Brenda around the time that they started kindergarten.
Brian and Brenda Reimer—the ultimate “matched pair.”
Brenda at age ten. “Everyone is telling you that you’re a girl,” David would later say, “but you say to yourself, ‘I don’t feel like a girl.’”
Christmas, mid-1970s, with Brenda dressed in her best clothes for visiting her paternal grandparents.
Dr. John Money
Dr. Milton Diamond
Brian, Ron, and Janet on their way to what would be the family’s final trip to Baltimore, in May 1978. Brenda, the photographer, was careful to stay on the opposite side of the lens at this stage of her life.
Brenda at age twelve, shortly after she started estrogen therapy to promote the feminization of her figure.
Brian and Brenda at age fourteen, shortly before they were told the truth of Brenda’s birth.
David and Brian in May 1980 at their uncle’s wedding, where David made his public debut as a boy. David still carries the evidence of the binge-eating he had done, as Brenda, to disguise his breasts. They would be surgically removed five months later, and testosterone injections would soon make David catch up in height to his twin.
David and Brian, May 1980, at their uncle’s wedding.
David at age eighteen.
David and Jane on their wedding day, 22 September 1990. It was Jane’s reaction to the truth about David’s past that convinced him of her “true heart.”
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