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Abstract: The true story of a family who spends 14 years trying to raise their son as a girl after his botched circumcision
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AS NATURE MADE HIM
An object lesson in medical hubris and close-the-ranks collusion, and in the tragic results when ideology trumps common sense in thinking about sex and gender. Above all, its a deeply moving human drama and a testament to the inner strength and courage of the child who never lost touch with who he really was.
Deborah Tannen,
author of You Just Dont Understand
Harrowing and enthralling. Makes a convincing case that gender has less to do with the signals we send and receive from the world than with ineradicable messages encoded in every cell of our brains and bodies.
Elle
An engaging book. Given access to Reimers psychiatric files, family, and friends, the author reconstructs a horrific tale: a scrappy kid made to wear pink and pearls; a bully of a doctor unwilling to admit failure; a family torn apart by guilt. Davids courageous and unlikely victoryshows us how psychololgys theories du jour can be painfully, dreadfully wrong. A gut-wrenching, absorbing account.
People
Ultimately, the book stands as a passionate warning against social pressure and prejudice, whether medical, ideological, or biological. As a society, we should aspire to Colapintos stellar journalist example: listening carefully to the circumstances of those who are different rather than demanding that they conform to our own.
Washington Post
The hottest hypothesis in the academic world today is that nature always trumps nurture. John Colapintos absorbing As Nature Made Him stands as exhibit A.
Tom Wolfe
With remarkable concision, Mr. Colapinto has telescoped this medical scandal, brilliantly weaving the perspectives of David [Reimer], his family, friends, doctors, and wife. The books structure is that of a mystery.
New York Observer
A page-turning story of heroes and villains that stirs both compassion and anger.
Philadelphia Inquirer
For the most part, As Nature Made Him is a story of innocence stolen and of ill fate bravely born. But the book is also a testament to the immutability of self.
Dallas Morning News
What happened to Bruce and his parents is a true-life medical horror to rival any of Robin Cooks science thrillers. A fascinating book.
Houston Chronicle
A riveting account of medical arrogance and misguided science.
Playboy
Colapintos book is a stinging and overdue indictment of the sexual reassignment of infants like baby Bruce and those born with both male and female sex organs. The book also serves as an intimate, heartbreaking diary of Bruce (Brenda) Reimer, the casualty of a ghoulish science project gone terribly wrong.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Colapinto, a writer of striking lucidity and compassion, inspired the very private man, [David Reimer], to reveal the entire story of his horrendous ordeal in hopes of preventing others from suffering his fate. The result is an arresting and invaluable narrative of personal tragedy, scientific arrogance, and societal confusion over the source and significance of gender differences.
Booklist
Colapinto, the reporter who won a National Magazine Award for a piece on Davids story, engrossingly recounts this tale of grotesque medical hubris and a life dragged slowly from the ashes. Colapintos storytelling, taut and emotive, never plays the grim tale for its sideshow qualities, nor claims the last word on nature versus nurture.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
John Colapinto debunks Dr. Moneys version of Brendas childhood in his fascinating, exhaustively researched As Nature Made Him . The result is a detailed and riveting account.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Raises fascinating scientific, philosophical questionsand also packs an irresistible narrative force from start to finish.
Boston Phoenix
This is a mesmerizing tale that manages to balance an engrossing look at what happened to Brenda with a persuasive argument that biology, not environment, determines sexuality.
San Antonio Express
This thoroughly researched and skillfully told profile of David Reimer deserves to be an early candidate for the best nonfiction book of the year.
Albany Times Union
About the Author
Portions of this book were originally published in Rolling Stone .
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers.
P.S. is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers.
AS NATURE MADE HIM . Copyright 2000, 2001 by John Colapinto. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.
First Perennial edition published 2001.
First Harper Perennial edition published 2006.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Colapinto, John.
As nature made him: the boy who was raised as a girl /
John Colapinto1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0060192119
1. TranssexualsCanadaBiography. 2. Sex change
Case studies. 3. Gender identity. 4. Nature and nurture.
1. Title.
RC560.G45C65 2000
305.9066 Bdc21
99-40167
ISBN-10: 0-06-112056-1 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-112056-5 (pbk.)
06 07 08 09 10 
/ RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
EPub Edition JANUARY 2013 ISBN: 9780062278319
To Donna
I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.
R OUSSEAU , Confessions
How could I not be glad to know my birth?
S OPHOCLES , Oedipus Rex
The difficulty is to detach the framework of factof absolute undeniable factfrom the embellishments of theorists and reporters. Then, having established ourselves upon this sound basis, it is our duty to see what inferences may be drawn and what are the special points upon which the whole mystery turns.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
T HIS IS A WORK OF NONFICTION . All passages of dialogue are taken verbatim from tape transcripts of psychological interviews, from contemporaneous psychiatric session notes, or from the direct recollection of witnesses to, or participants in, these events. No dialogue or scenes have been invented for the purposes of narrative flow, atmosphere, or any other quasi-novelistic purpose. The account of Dr. Moneys appearance on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television show in 1967 is taken from a videotape of that programa tape that was, miraculously, not destroyed in the thirty years since its broadcast. Direct dialogue from the Psycho-hormonal Research Unit sessions (published here for the first time) is taken from tape transcripts which Dr. Money supplied to the patient in June 1998 upon the request of the patients local physician.
O N THE MORNING of 27 June 1997 I paid my first visit to David Reimers home, a small, nondescript dwelling in a working-class neighborhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba. There was nothing about the house to suggest that its owner might arouse the interest of a journalist from New York Citynot to mention the fascination of scientists and doctors the world over. On the well-tended lawn, a childs bicycle lay on its side. At the curb was parked an eight-year-old secondhand Toyota. Inside the house, a handmade wooden cabinet in a corner of the living room held the standard emblems of family life: wedding photos and school portraits, china figurines, and souvenirs from family trips. There was a knock-off antique coffee table, a worn easy chair, and a sofawhich was where my host, a wiry young man dressed in a jean jacket and scuffed work boots, seated himself.
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