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The Book As Nature Made Him Written by John Colapinto is about a boy, which until he was 14 years old, grew up as a girl. His name was Bruce. Bruce was a boy until a few months after he was born the doctors had an accident while Brian was getting a circumcision and burned off his penis. The parents were very distressed for months. Most doctors said there was little hope for Bruce. The only hope at the time was a phallic reconstruction. His penis wouldn't resemble a normal organ nor have the sexual capability that normal penises have. When the parents were almost about to quit, hope came from a man named Dr. John Money. He was a psychiatrist that had a theory on sex identity. He said that if you were a boy but were raised as a girl that the child would think of himself as a girl even though he was born a boy. The parents thought this would be the best life for Bruce, instead of not fitting into a specific sex. This book shows the will of a boy not wanting to give in to what everyone is telling him. Shortly after the operation to give Bruce a external female genitals he was given the name Brenda. Even at the age of two, Brenda was showing her parents that she didn’t want to be a girl. The parents often times put Brenda into dre