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A review by thereadingwren
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
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This was a fascinating, heartbreaking, and inspiring story.
This story was featured as an episode on Law & Order: SVU and it was one of the episodes I’ve always remembered. I never knew it was real until this book. Even when reading it I thought the show must have dramatised some events to make it entertaining for tv audiences, but no. Bar that initial incident that gets the SVU involved (and the last cliffhanger) everything that happened during that episode happened in real life. I couldn’t believe someone had to live a life so fraught with deception and trauma.
The things David went through were horrific, the things Money said and did were truly evil and psychotic, the science at the time was borderline barbaric. But through it all, David and his family survived and that’s the most inspirational part.
John Colapinto really has a way of telling a story, I was riveted the entire time and never wanted to stop reading. He thoroughly did his homework on the case and researched every single person ever involved, a sign of a good reporter.
I read this for the Trans Book Club’s January pick and I’m so glad I was introduced to this story.
This was a fascinating, heartbreaking, and inspiring story.
This story was featured as an episode on Law & Order: SVU and it was one of the episodes I’ve always remembered. I never knew it was real until this book. Even when reading it I thought the show must have dramatised some events to make it entertaining for tv audiences, but no. Bar that initial incident that gets the SVU involved (and the last cliffhanger) everything that happened during that episode happened in real life. I couldn’t believe someone had to live a life so fraught with deception and trauma.
The things David went through were horrific, the things Money said and did were truly evil and psychotic, the science at the time was borderline barbaric. But through it all, David and his family survived and that’s the most inspirational part.
John Colapinto really has a way of telling a story, I was riveted the entire time and never wanted to stop reading. He thoroughly did his homework on the case and researched every single person ever involved, a sign of a good reporter.
I read this for the Trans Book Club’s January pick and I’m so glad I was introduced to this story.