Both in ˝As Nature Made him, The Boy Who Was Raised A Girl˝ by John Colapinto and in ˝She's Not There˝ by Jennifer Finney Boylan, we immerse ourselves in the almost unknown and misunderstood realm of gender identity and confusion. Although they have two different stories, they encounter many of the same problems both physically and mentally. The main question that needs to be raised here is a person's gender determined by nature or nurture? “As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl” by John Colapinto illustrates the story of David Riemer. He is a person who was noticed by the world of science due to a botched circumcision and was subjected to many experiments by a doctor named Dr. Money, to determine the answer to this significant question. Gender is determined by nature or nurture. However, I'm not sure whether one can really classify Dr. John Money's tests as experiments or treatments. Although the answers are not certain for doctors, they are quite convinced that gender is a result of education. David Reimer was born in 1965. Bruce, David's birth name, was a healthy child...
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