ESSAY ON: John Colapinto's "As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl" - Dominant Paradigms

Number of Pages 5

This research paper: 5 pages in length. David Reimer was not merely the victim of medical error when a failed circumcision completely redirected his life but perhaps more importantly he suffered extenuating consequences due to historical, theoretical and cultural ignorance pertaining to gender identity. The extent to which Reimer endured more than a decade of his life being filled with conflicting indicators from inside his own body/mind disconnection and those around him who blindly - if not by utter brainwashing - believed they were doing right by him is both grand and far-reaching; that he was strong enough to regain his life as a male after all the adulterated and misguided attempts toward turning him into a female by virtue of mind control and hormone treatment speaks to Reimer's more grounded understanding of how gender identity is bound most stringently by the principles of nature over nurture. Bibliography lists 5 sources.


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