Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future

At the age of 15 Brenda (Bruce) was finally told what had happened when she was younger.
Bruce stopped using the name Brenda and adopted the name David, had surgery done to remove the
breasts that he had acquired when using hormones, and had his genitals replaced through multiple
surgeries. David ended up getting married and because he could not have any children of his own he
became the adoptive father of three children. After the death of David‘s twin brother Brian, which was
caused by an overdose of antidepressant medication, David fell into depression and he lost his job.
David‘s wife soon after asked for a separation that same day. After all the emotional turmoil, David
committed suicide at the age of 38 (Goiar, 2005-2011). After all that David had gone through, the sex
change, the teasing in school, his therapy sessions, and the loss of those who kept him strong, his attempts
at suicide finally worked.
These psychologically distressing experiments are just the tip of the iceberg. There have been
many more conducted and some of them may not have been documented. Like the ones that were
conducted in insane asylums with the types of therapy done on the patients, and the studies that do not
give us any useful information. Even though we do learn how to act if these were ―real life‖ situations and
why people do certain acts. The effects that individuals obtained from the studies were too great to justify
the use of the experiments.
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