As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl by John Colapinto

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl

John Colapinto

289 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography gender psychology reflective slow-paced

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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 medicine—and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the...

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