A superb piece. I couldn't help reading the whole damn thing. The interplay between the scientific and human dramas is masterfully done. There are so many things I could say about this article that I'm not even going to try.
I didn't recognize the name John Colapinto, but it didn't take long to figure out that I've heard him before. He wrote a book about the infamous case of a boy who, after a botched circumcision as a baby, was forcibly raised like a girl to satisfy the pet gender theory of an unscrupulous psychologist. It was a tragic story. The boy grew up to courageously challenge the identity that had been imposed on him and lived as an adult male, but killed himself a few years after the book was published. I remember hearing a riveting interview with him and Colapinto on Fresh Air (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1111038).
So that makes two great pieces by John Colapinto. I wonder what else I've missed.
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A superb piece. I couldn't help reading the whole damn thing. The interplay between the scientific and human dramas is masterfully done. There are so many things I could say about this article that I'm not even going to try.
I didn't recognize the name John Colapinto, but it didn't take long to figure out that I've heard him before. He wrote a book about the infamous case of a boy who, after a botched circumcision as a baby, was forcibly raised like a girl to satisfy the pet gender theory of an unscrupulous psychologist. It was a tragic story. The boy grew up to courageously challenge the identity that had been imposed on him and lived as an adult male, but killed himself a few years after the book was published. I remember hearing a riveting interview with him and Colapinto on Fresh Air (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1111038).
So that makes two great pieces by John Colapinto. I wonder what else I've missed.