David's Deviled Pork Chops

Tonight's dinner is to honor David Reimer, a troubled young man who's life was destroyed by professionals offering to “help” him. Read about this fascinating story and learn what can often happen to people born with the “intersex” variation.

Here we slow-roast chops in a low oven. Insuring a soft juicy texture. We “devil” them by painting the tops and sides of the chops with a balanced paste of mustards, minced garlic, and black peppers. We coated the tops of the chops with crispy panko bread crumbs, toasted to make them water-resistant so that they didn't absorb moisture from the coating and turn soggy.

Ingredients:

2 Tbs butter

½ cup panko bread crumbs

salt & pepper

¼ cup honey mustard

1.5 tsp dry mustard

1 Tbs brown sugar

½ tsp garlic powder

4 boneless pork chops cut 1 inch thick*

Here I bought a sirloin tip pork roast and cut the chops yourself!

Directions:

If you bought a roast, slice it thick between 1.5 and 2 inches each piece for fantastic medallions. 

 

Marinade the pork for at least 3 hours. Use a simple 3 Tbs salt and 3 Tbs maple syrup in a bath just deep enough to cover chops.

 

When you are ready to cook, rinse off the pork and pat dry with paper towels.

Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 275 degrees.

Spray a nonstick skillet and heat over medium heat. Add panko and cook, stirring frequently, until golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes. You don't want it soggy, this will keep the crumbs from absorbing moisture out of the chops as they cook. Transfer to bowl and sprinkle with ⅛ teaspoon salt.

In a second bowl: Stir mustard, brown sugar, dry mustard, garlic, 1 tsp salt, and 1 tsp pepper until smooth.

Set wire rack in rimmed baking sheet and spray with vegetable oil spray. Pat chops dry with paper towels. Transfer chops to prepared wire rack, spacing them 1 inch apart.

Apply Side and Top Coats

Brush 1 TBS mustard mixture over top and sides of each chop (leave bottoms uncoated).

Spoon 2 TBS toasted panko evenly over top of each piece and press lightly to adhere.

Be careful about applying these coats. It is important that the mustard mixture is on just the tops and sides so you can avoid getting the paste on the rack while still imparting the maximum flavor. Crumbs Go Just on Top!
The paste will glue the panko crumbs to the chops' top surfaces; there's no need to press them onto the sides.

Roast until meat registers 140 degrees, 40 to 50 minutes.

Remove from oven and let rest on rack for 10 minutes before serving. This rest time gives you the chance to microwave the green vegetables. Always let meat rest while you cook the greens.

Serve with a starch and a green vegetable.

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David Reimer The John/Joan Case

Bruce Reimer born as the slightly older of identical twin boys in August of 1965 in Canada. His twin brother was named Brian.

The tragic story of his life gives example to what happens when the doctors play God. This happens so often to people born with a condition known now as “Intersex”.

This is one of the topics that many believe “We don't talk about”. This means the general public has no idea what it is or how often it occurs, or how brutal it can be to the child.

So lets allow this story to enlighten us on the topic. Intersex people are born with sex characteristics (genitals, gonads and or chromosome patterns) that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies.

Some medical articles indicate that as many as 1 in 60 of human births might be intersex, including variations that may not become apparent until, for example, puberty, or until attempting to conceive.

The existence of intersex people was known to many ancient and pre-modern cultures. Roman law, post-classical canon law, and later common law, referred to a person's sex as male, female or hermaphrodite, with legal rights as male or female depending on the characteristics that appeared most dominant.

These civil rights, property rights, inheritance, etc were very important. The term 'hermaphrodite' began to be replaced with 'intersex' in the 1940s.

As advances in surgery have made it possible for intersex conditions to be concealed, many people are not aware of how frequently intersex conditions arise in human beings or that they occur at all.

Infants, children and adolescents experience "normalizing" interventions that are medically unnecessary.

Intersex can be contrasted with homosexuality or same-sex attraction. Some studies have shown higher rates of same sex attraction in intersex people, with a recent Australian study of people born with atypical sex characteristics finding that 52% of respondents were non-heterosexual, thus research on intersex subjects has been used to explore means of preventing homosexuality. However, current studies do not support a statistical correlation. More over the question is how can they be “same-sex” ? Which sex are you claiming they are?

However the fear and misunderstanding of genders and sexuality have pressured surgeons and families to adopt the simple strategy of surgical removal of any male genitalia and inserting a tube as a vaginal substitute.

This brings us to the sad case of David Reimer. Neither he nor his identical twin brother were born with these intersex variations.

At the age of six months, concern was raised about how both of them urinated, the boys were diagnosed with phimosis. A condition that does not allow the foreskin to retract normally. They were referred for circumcision at the age of seven months. Even though most cases of phimosis clear up on their own without intervention.

1966, a urologist performed the operation using an un-conventional method of electro-cauterization. The procedure did not go as planned, and Bruce's penis was burned beyond surgical repair! They decided to leave his brother Brian's member alone. (which by the way cleared up on its own)

The parents, concerned about their son's sexual function without a penis, took him to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in early 1967 to see John Money, a psychologist.

He had a reputation as a pioneer in the field of sexual development and gender identity. Money believed that gender identity developed as a result of social learning from early childhood and that it could be changed with the appropriate behavioral interventions.

This case was perfect to “Prove his theories”. Since there were no intersex variations and here was a twin brother with identical DNA in an identical family!

Dr. Money persuaded the parents the child would be more likely to achieve successful, functional sexual maturation as a girl than as a boy. After surgery to remove what was left of his male genitalia, Bruce was reassigned to be raised as female and given the name Brenda.

Reimer latter reported publicly what the twins were forced to do. This encluded rehearsing sexual acts involving "thrusting movements", with David (Brenda) playing the bottom role.

Reimer said that, as a child, he had to get "down on all fours" with his brother, Brian, "up behind his butt" with "his crotch against" his "buttocks". Reimer said that Money forced David, in another sexual position, to have his "legs spread" with Brian on top. Reimer said that Money also forced the children to take their "clothes off" and engage in "genital inspections". On “at least one occasion", Reimer said that the doctor took a photograph of the two children doing these activities. Money believed that "childhood 'sexual rehearsal play'" was important for a "healthy adult gender identity".

For several years, Money reported on Reimer's progress as the "John/Joan case".

The twin brother, Brian, later developed schizophrenia. 

 

Estrogen was given during adolescence, inducing breast development. By the age of 13 years, Reimer was experiencing suicidal depression and begged his parents not to make him see Money again. Finally, in 1980, Reimer's parents told him the truth about his gender reassignment.

At 14, Reimer decided to re-assume a male gender identity, calling himself David. By 1987, Reimer had undergone treatment to reverse the original reassignment, including testosterone injections, a double mastectomy, and two phalloplasty operations. In 1990, he married Jane Fontane and would adopt her three children.

In addition to his difficult lifelong relationship with his parents, Reimer had to deal with unemployment and the death of his brother Brian from an overdose of antidepressants on July 1, 2002.

On May 2, 2004, his wife Jane told him she wanted to separate. On the morning of May 4, 2004, Reimer drove to a grocery store's parking lot and took his own life by shooting himself in the head with a sawed-off shotgun. He was 38 years old.

By going public with his story, this brave young man has shed much needed light on this condition, treatments, and phobia surrounding this natural variation.

There is still so much to learn about genders, genitalia, and sexual preference but we must not let our shyness and confusion keep us from trying to understand and giving support!

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