Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

As Nature Made Him The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto

2 reviews

cogowno's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia and Infertility

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, and Vomit

creativerunnings's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

5.0

This was a very captivating read. I'm surprised this book isn't more popular. The book describes the tragedy that befell David Reimer. A surgical accident during his circumcision as a baby resulted in a recommendation to raise him as a girl - mostly, it appears, to satisfy the drive of a disturbed physician scientist, Dr. Money, to experiment with the age old nurture vs nature debate. What ensued was gender dysphoria that lasted years and decades, causing much pain to the child individually and family dysfunction overall. 

It makes me so happy that we've made progress as a society - mostly, that we've learned that gender identity is fluid and personal, and that we don't just blindly listen to icky doctors anymore.

An engrossing read that was well researched and impossible to put down. Thank you John Colapinto for this unbelievable work of nonfiction!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death