num_pages: 289
description: 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 extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male. A macabre tale of medical arrogance, it is first and foremost a human drama of one man's—and one family's—amazing survival in the face of terrible odds.
language: English
title: As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
titlecomplete: As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
genres: Gender, Biography, Science, LGBT, Queer, Psychology, Nonfiction, Sociology, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 7357
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Transgender
publisher: Harper Perennial