What would you do if you were the parent of David/Brenda and the doctors informed you of the surgical calamity?

Imagine being born a boy but being raised as a girl. Imagine discovering at age 14 that your sex had been reassigned right after your birth and you were never told. That’s exactly what happened to one person (Butler, 2004; Colapinto, 2000; McClellan, 2004).
David was born a physically normal male child. However, during his circumcision, doctors erred tragically and cut off most of his penis. The doctors decided that David could never be a normal male so they performed surgery to make him like a female anatomically, and they gave him estrogen treatments to enhance his femininity. The confused parents renamed their child Brenda and brought the child up as a girl. Brenda was never told she had been born a boy, but she resisted being treated as a girl. At age 14, Brenda learned of the botched circumcision.
Brenda decided to live as a male, took the name David, and ceased estrogen treatments. As an adult, David had strong relationships with family members and friends and, at age 25, he married a woman who already had children. However, he apparently was not completely comfortable with his identity or society’s response to him, for in June of 2004, at the age of 38, David took his own life.