Luggage Carrier Lucien

Anderson Cooper Looks At The Devastating Result of "The Sissy-Boy Experiment"

Posted by snicks on June 7, 2011






George Rekers and "luggage carrier" Lucien

In a special three-part series starting tonight, Anderson Cooper 360° examines an "experimental therapy" designed to make feminine boys more masculine:

His doctors called him “Kraig.” His parents were afraid he was too effeminate and might grow up to be gay. So, at age 4, Kraig was enrolled in a government-funded program at UCLA dubbed “The Feminine Boy Project” where Kraig was plunged into a series of experiments using aggressive aversion therapy. The behaviors judged effeminate were beat out of him—literally and figuratively—and Kraig’s case was judged a success. A success until, at age 38, this “poster child” for changing gender identity disorder was so depressed and disturbed he committed suicide.

Anderson speaks with Kraig’s family, who blame the therapy for his suicide, and the special will look into the man behind the therapy - Dr. George Rekers. Yes, the same George Rekers who was caught in a rentboy scandal.

You can check out a heartbreaking clip below, and check out the first part of the series tonight at 10 PM EST on CNN.