As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl | |
Author: | John Colapinto |
Pages: | 279 |
Pub Date: | February 20, 2000 |
Isbn: | 978-0-06-019211-2 |
Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl is a biography of David Reimer, written by John Colapinto and published February 20, 2000, by Harper Perennial. Reimer was a Canadian man born male but raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy.
In 2001, the book was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction.
As Nature Made Him was a New York Times best seller.[1]