As Nature Made Him

As Nature Made Him
Author	John Colapinto
Publisher	Harper Perennial
Publication date	February 20, 2000
Pages	279
ISBN	978-0-06-019211-2

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, 2001 by Harper Perennial. Reimer was a Canadian man born male but reassigned female and 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.

Reception[]

As Nature Made Him was a New York Times best seller.^[1]

Reviews[]

"Colapinto's storytelling, taut and emotive, never plays the grim tale for its sideshow qualities, nor claims the last word on nature versus nurture."

Angier, Natalie (20 February 2000). "X + Y = Z". The New York Times Book Review. p. 10.
Bockting, Walter O. (2000). "Nurturing Nature and the Nature of Science: Toward Transcendence". The Journal of Sex Research. 37 (4): 378–379. ISSN 0022-4499. JSTOR 3813135.
Brouwer, Adair (April 2000). "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl". Quill and Quire. Vol. 66, no. 6. p. 46. ISSN 0033-6491.
Bull, Chris (30 April 2000). "Body Politics". The Washington Post.
Bullough, Vern L. (December 2000). "Book Reviews". Journal of Sex Education and Therapy. 25 (4): 298–299. doi:10.1080/01614576.2000.11074367. S2CID 141617228.
Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T. (11 May 2000). "Book Review". New England Journal of Medicine. 342 (19): 1457–1458. doi:10.1056/NEJM200005113421920.
DeAngelo, Carol (June 2000). "The Book Review". School Library Journal. Vol. 46, no. 6. pp. 174+.
Friedman, Richard C. (August 2001). "Book Reviews". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 49 (4): 1452–1456. doi:10.1177/00030651010490041109. S2CID 144157847.
Gerschick, Thomas J. (April 2002). "Book Reviews". Teaching Sociology. 30 (2): 267. doi:10.2307/3211394. JSTOR 3211394.
Gilbert, Miqqi Alicia (Fall 2000). "Books". Transgender Tapestry. No. 91. pp. 54–55.
Hunter, Graeme (January–February 2001). "A Boyhood Stolen". Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity. 14 (1): 64–65.
"As Nature Made Him". Kirkus Reviews. 1 January 2000.
LeVay, Simon (1 May 2000). "Boy, Interrupted". Psychology Today. Vol. 33, no. 3. p. 76.
Looy, Heather (September–October 2000). "How Not to Do a Sex Change". Books and Culture. 6 (5): 13.
McGill, Donna A. (1 August 2001). "Review". The American Biology Teacher. 63 (6): 453. doi:10.2307/4451158. JSTOR 4451158.
McKenna, Wendy; Kessler, Suzanne J.; Tiefer, Leonore; Schober, Justine M. (2002). "Book Reviews". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 31 (3): 301–306. doi:10.1023/A:1015261105748. S2CID 142488905.
Nicolai, Kate (2000). "The Pedagogical Value of As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl". The Journal of Sex Research. 37 (4): 379–382. ISSN 0022-4499. JSTOR 3813136.
"Nonfiction Book Review: As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl". Publishers Weekly. February 2000.
Stanley, William B.; Stanley, Lynn W. (December 2000). "Book Reviews". Educational Studies. 31 (4): 469–475. doi:10.1207/S15326993ES3104_3. S2CID 218509726.
Stockwell, Anne (14 March 2000). "Book Reviews: Incredible Journeys". The Advocate. No. 807. p. 64. ISSN 0001-8996.
Winkler, Claudia (19 June 2000). "Boy, Interrupted: A Tale of Sex, Lies, and Dr. Money". The Weekly Standard. Vol. 5, no. 38. pp. 31–34.

Awards[]

References[]

^ "As Nature Made Him". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2022-01-14.

[1] "As Nature Made Him". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2022-01-14.

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