As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

By: John Colapinto

Published February 20th 2001 by Harper Perennial (first published January 13th 2000)

Category: Biography

Pages: 320 pages

ISBN: 9780060929596

Description:
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicineÑand a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male. A macabre tale of medical arrogance, it is first and foremost a human drama of one man'sÑand one family'sÑamazing survival in the face of terrible odds.