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「ブレンダはただ黙って……そっぽを向きながら、宙を見つめている……彼女は私に、オフィスに閉じこめられているように感じると言う……いますぐ外に出たい……自分は自分のなかに閉じこめられていると」

-「ブレンダと呼ばれた少年」

This page last edited 2003/01/25

新刊紹介
New Publishing

デザートKC
オッパイをとったカレシ。

芹沢由紀子 著： 本体 390円
講談社
発行年月日：2002年12月13日
サイズ：173×112mm ：189ページ
ISBN4-06-341196-6


内容紹介
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男に、なりたい。

性同一性障害をリアルに描き大反響を呼んだ182頁感動長編！！

オレのちんちんは、いつはえてくるんだろう――
間違った性を持って生まれてきたことに、苦しむハルカ。男として恋をしたい！ 彼女と裸でセックスしたい！ そんな“彼”が、数々の出逢いを経て決意した道は！？

三橋順子「トランスジェンダー（性別越境）ブックガイド」 (中央評論 241号 2002年10月)
Mihashi Junko "Transgender Book Guide"

BOOKS ON HEALTH
Beyond Appearances: The Ambiguities of Sexuality
By DINITIA SMITH (New York Times 2002/10/29)

How Sex Changed
A History of Transsexuality in the United States

Joanne Meyerowitz

Harvard University Press, October 2002
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
20 halftones
400 pages
Cloth edition:
$29.95 / £19.95 / €29.95 (one world price)
ISBN 0-674-00925-8

Social Science: Gender Studies / Psychology & Psychiatry: Human Sexuality / History: United States: General

How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex itself, the category that seemed most fundamental and fixed of all. From early twentieth-century sex experiments in Europe, to the saga of Christine Jorgensen, whose sex-change surgery made headlines in 1952, to today's growing transgender movement, Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality. She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves, as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists, as they debated the big questions of medical ethics, nature versus nurture, self and society, and the scope of human rights. In this story of transsexuality, Meyerowitz shows how new definitions of sex circulated in popular culture, science, medicine, and the law, and she elucidates the tidal shifts in our social, moral, and medical beliefs over the twentieth century, away from sex as an evident biological certainty and toward an understanding of sex as something malleable and complex. How Sex Changed is an intimate history that illuminates the very changes that shape our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality today.

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Normal: Transsexual Ceos, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites With Attitude
Amy Bloom (著)

U.S. 定価： $23.95

• ハードカバー: 160 p ;
• 出版社: Random House ; ISBN: 067945652X ; 1st 版 (2002/10/01)

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Writers on Writing
Trading Fiction's Comfort for a Chance to Look Life in the Eye
By AMY BLOOM (New York Times Books 2002/11/18)

'Normal': Unusual (But Not Abnormal) Sexuality
By ERICA GOODE (New York Times Books 2002/12/15)

Research Methods With Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 3/4)
William Meezan (著), James Martin (著)

U.S. 定価： $24.95

• ペーパーバック: 242 p ;
• 出版社: Haworth Pr ; ISBN: 1560233214 ; (2002/11/01)

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TORAI Masae: Japan's Leading Female-to-Male Transsexual Activist

RESPECT AND EQUALITY: TRANSSEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS
Stephen Whittle
ISBN 1859417434 Pages 300 pp
September 2002 Paperback
Cavendish Publishing

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September 2002: publication of an new book - "Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights", written by Stephen Whittle, Vice-President of Press For Change, the UK's lobby group campaigning for respect and equality for transgender people. This 300 page book argues that current law does not adequately provide for transgender people and calls for respect and equality before the law. Theoretical discussions of sex, sexuality, gender and law, are combined to provide an insightful analysis into the inadequacies of current law.  The book will be essential reading for legislators and legal practitioners working to enhance the rights and social acceptance of transgender people, also transgender  campaigners, as well as those researching and studying within the field.  It is due to be published in September 2002 and is priced at 25 pounds sterling.  Please find some information about the book attached at the bottom of this message. This book will make a substantial contribution to current discussion of transsexual and transgender rights within the transcommunity.  This book can also be ordered through Amazon.co.uk - why not go through the Press For Change website, www.pfc.org.uk  and support PFC whilst buying this book If you are able to promote this book to trans people, and those who work with them please do not hesitate to contact Cathy Thornhill of Cavendish Publishing (details below) to discuss this further, or for any more information about the book. Cathy Thornhill, Brand and Product Manager, Cavendish Publishing Limited, The Glass House, Wharton Street London WC1X 9PX, United Kingdom, Tel: +44(0) 20 7278 8000 Fax: +44(0) 20 7278 8080  www.cavendishpublishing.com  ********************************************************************************* RESPECT AND EQUALITY: TRANSSEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS ・        Everything you need about transgender law ・        History, theory, principles and practice of transgender law ・        Current, up to date, in-depth and comprehensive analysis ・        For students, lawyers, legislators and transgender people   This book provides everything you would ever want to know about the law relating to transgender issues. Using an extensive range of primary and secondary research materials it provides an insightful and cogent analysis into the inadequacies of current law.   Writing coherently and persuasively, the author uses innovative theoretical discussions of sex, sexuality, gender, and the law to demonstrate the injustices meted out to transgender people. Combining analysis of up-to date national and international statute and case law with practical examples of successful affidavits, this book is a rich, up to date study taking account of the most recent developments in the field. Accurate and well articulated, there is a rigorous critique of areas as diverse and wide ranging as the medical treatment of teenagers, immigration and asylum, the military, as well as marriage and employment. It is a timely contribution to the knowledge of the law in this area.   The book will become a classic as an investigation of the law's inadequacy in framing sexual citizenship. An ideal text for all levels of higher education, it will appeal to academics and students of sexuality, gender, and human rights. Legislators and legal practitioners working to enhance human rights and social acceptance for transgender people will find in it a wealth of otherwise inaccessible information. Transgender people should ensure they have two copies, one for themselves, and one their lawyer.   Finally, the book will be a fabulous resource for transgender campaigners, because of its vast breadth of coverage of the many pertinent and crucial issues. Each chapter contains extremely useful information about the law's approach and will be readily accessible to anyone involved in seeking information and reform of any particular area within the book's ambit.   2. Back Cover Copy This book is not so much a 'call for rights' as a call for people to be given respect and an equal footing before the law. The first part explores both the historical medico-legal construction of transsexualism as a syndrome, and the socio-legal construction of the transsexual it clarifies the inadequacy of current legal thinking and law in practice. Transsexual and transgender people are given space to discuss their own construction of self in the face of an inadequate legal framework. The book discusses their theoretical and practical approaches to the legal problems faced through new forms of activism, and understandings of what gender is as a means of expression and as a mechanism of oppression.   The remainder of the book concerns the law and the current position as regards transsexual people. The chapters are comprehensive, addressing the 'live' issues that have come before the courts and the justice system. It tackles transgender employment (including a chapter on the employment of trans people as police officers), marriage, parenting, treatment access, the position in European law, and imprisonment. These are given a theoretical and legal perspective but are grounded in the lives of real transsexual people. As such, the book provides a guide to tackling the problems of the law. Included at the end of the book are examples of affidavits that have been used in practice to illustrate 'how trans people do law'.   This book is the perfect tool for anyone who ever has anything to do with the law as it relates to transgender people, as well as providing an excellent campaigning resource for transgender people themselves.   3. Contents CHAPTER 1 DISEMBODIED LAW: TRANS PEOPLE'S LEGAL (OUTER)SPACE CHAPTER 2 LEGAL MADNESS: TRANSSEXUALISM CHAPTER 3 TRANSSEXUAL DENIAL: SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTING THE LEGAL BODY  CHAPTER 4 STILL GENDER FUCKING OR STILL FUCKING GENDER?  CHAPTER 5 THE TRANS-CYBERIAN MAIL WAY  CHAPTER 6 INSTITUTIONALISED EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AND TRANSSEXUAL PEOPLE  CHAPTER 7 SEX AND MARRIAGE: GOES TOGETHER LIKE A .?  CHAPTER 8 GEMEINSCHAFTSFREMDEN - OR HOW TO BE SHAFTED BY YOUR FRIENDS: STERILISATION REQUIREMENTS AND LEGAL STATUS RECOGNITION FOR THE TRANSSEXUAL  CHAPTER 9 SEEKING A GENDERED ADOLESCENCE: LIABILITY AND ETHICS SURROUNDING ADOLESCENTS WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA  CHAPTER 10 EUROPEAN TRANSGENDER RIGHTS:  NEW IDENTITY POLITICS FOR A NEW AGE  CHAPTER 11 THE PRAXIS AND POLITICS OF POLICING: PROBLEMS FACING TRANS PEOPLE  CHAPTER 12 PRISON PROVISION FOR TRANS PEOPLE   CHAPTER 13 'GENDER IDENTITY': PROPOSED ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL BROADENING ARTICLE 14 OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION; THE NEED FOR EXPRESS INCLUSION  CHAPTER 14 SURGICAL REQUIRMENTS FOR LEGAL RECOGNITION: WHY A VAGINECTOMY SHOULD NOT BE DEMANDED OF A TRANSSEXUAL MAN  CHAPTER 15 TRANSSEXUAL PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY  CHAPTER 16 A TEMPORARY ASYLUM APPEAL FOR A TRANSSEXUAL PRISONER 4. Personal Bio Stephen Whittle is the Reader in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as being the Vice-president of Press For Change, which is the UK's lobby group campaigning for respect and equality for all trans people. His background as a transsexual man, led to his legal career. Having suffered prejudice and discrimination throughout the 1970s and 1980s including being dismissed from several jobs, he chose to become a lawyer pursuing a part time degree, Masters, and doctorate. He reckons 10 years of evening classes made him realize how much could be achieved by not watching television. He has worked with Amnesty International. ILGA Europe, The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association and Liberty to provide amicus briefs in many trans-related cases throughout the world. He and his partner, Sarah, have 4 young children (including twins). It was their fight to protect their children that led them to make their own application to the European Court of Human Rights in 1996 (X, Y and Z v UK Government). He has many publications, most recently " The Transgender Debate - the current crisis in gender identities", South Street Press: 2000, and "Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the fin de siecle", Cassell: 1999, edited with Kate More. Currently he is working on "50 years of Sex Changing: A Social History of Transformation in the late 20th Century" and a "Trans-Studies Reader".

The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships
A Study of National, European and International Law
Edited by Robert Wintemute and Mads Andenas

Published october 2001 by Hart Publishing
PRICE £48.00
COVER paperback
ISBN 1-84113-138-5

Should same-sex couples be permitted to marry? Or should a separate institution of "registered partnership" or "civil union" be created for them? Or should the rights and duties of unmarried different-sex couples be extended to them? Should they be allowed to adopt each other's children, or jointly adopt an unrelated child? How should they be treated with regard to employment, social security, pensions, housing, immigration, taxation, inheritance, and divorce? These questions are being debated around the world, as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons increasingly (but not uniformly) insist that they cannot be truly equal without equal treatment for the loving and lasting relationships they form with their partners. In "Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships", an international team of scholars examines both theoretical issues and the wide variety of legal developments in the United States, Canada, Brazil, thirteen European countries, Israel, South Africa, India, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand, as well as under European Community and European Convention law, and United Nations human rights law. Robert Wintemute is Reader in Law at King's College. London. He is the author of SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS (OUP). Mads Andenas is Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is the editor of numerous books on European and Comparative Law. This book is the new bible on same sex marriage and domestic partnership recogntion. Much is relevant to trans people in partnerships, and it includes a chapter by Stephen Whittle on trans marraige law. by S.Whittle

性同一性障害と法
大島俊之　著

本体価格 6,000 円
判型 Ａ５判
ページ数 384
ISBNコード ISBN4-535-05812-1
発刊 2002.6
日本評論社

Gender-Identity Disorder and Law by OSHIMA Toshiyuki

性同一障害の人々の戸籍等、法律問題の解決を目指す

性別適合手術（性転換手術）を完了した性同一性障害の人々が抱える、戸籍、婚姻、職場差別などの法的諸問題を解決するため、永年、比較法研究を積み上げてきた著者の成果をまとめ、これまでの判例や運用の変更を迫る。

序　章　医学的概観 第１章　医師の刑事責任 　第１節　わが国の判例 　第２節　わが国の学説 　第３節　私見 　第４節　フランスの事例 第２章　性同一性障害と医療保険 　第１節　序論 　第２節　ドイツ法 　第３節　スイス法 　第４節　アメリカ法 　第５節　私見 第３章　名の変更 　第１節　序論 　第２節　わが国の判例 　第３節　私見 　第４節　フランス法 　第５節　アメリカ法 第４章　戸籍上の性別表記の訂正 　第１節　序論 　第２節　わが国の判例 　第３節　私見 　第４節　判例研究その１ 　第５節　判例研究その２ 　第６節　判例研究その３ 　第７節　判例研究その４ 　第８節　住民票・パスポート等の性別表記 第５章　判例による性別表記の訂正 ――外国法その１ 　第１節　ドイツ法 　第２節　スペイン法 　第３節　フランス法 第６章　立法による性別表記の訂正 ――外国法その２ 　第１節　スウェーデン法 　第２節　ドイツ法 　第３節　イタリア法 　第４節　オーストリア法 　第５節　オランダ法 　第６節　トルコ法 　第７節　サウス・オーストラリア州法 　第８節　ニュージーランド法 　第９節　アメリカ法 　第10節　カナダ法 　第11節　立法のための論点整理 第７章　性同一性障害と婚姻 　第１節　婚姻の効力 　第２節　国際結婚の効力 　第３節　日本の事例と私見 第８章　性同一性障害と親子関係 　第１節　アメリカ法 　第２節　ドイツ法 　第３節　学説と私見 第９章　性同一性障害と職場差別 　第１節　アメリカ法 　第２節　ヨーロッパ法 　第３節　日本における動向と私見 第10章　拘置所・刑務所における性同一性障害者の処遇 　第１節　序論 　第２節　収容すべき施設 　第３節　施設内における治療 　第４節　刑務所における服装・髪形 　第５節　アメリカの学説 　第６節　ドイツの事例 　第７節　私見 第11章　その他の諸問題 　第１節　異性装は罪か 　第２節　刑事法上の問題 　第３節　損害賠償 　第４節　その他の諸問題 参考文献 あとがき

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性の境界
―― からだの性とこころの性 ――

山内　俊雄

■体裁＝B6判・並製・カバー・122頁
■本体 1,000円
■2000年6月22日
■ISBN4-00-006574-2 C0347
岩波書店−岩波科学ライブラリー74

A border between sexes - physical sex and mental sex - by YAMAUCHI Toshio

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「体の方が間違っているんだ」．心と体の性別が一致しない「性同一性障害」はなぜ起こるのか．微妙なバランスの上に立つ性分化の過程から，「男らしい男」と「女らしい女」だけではない，多様な性のスペクトルが生まれる．日本初の性転換手術の申請を受けて心と体の性の問題を議論した埼玉医大倫理委員会委員長が医学的見地から解説．


書評掲載案内
Sexuality 2001年10月号

性転換手術は許されるのか

サブタイトル 性同一性障害と性のあり方

著・訳者名 山内俊雄

本体価格 2000円

体　　裁 四六判 / 縦組 / 上製 / カバー

頁　　数 224頁

刊行年月 1999.09

ISBN 4-7503-1210-X

Should Sex-Change Operations Be Allowed? by YAMAUCHI Toshio

キャプション
自らの望む性と実際の性別との越えられない壁に悩み，苦しむ人びと。
日本で初めて公の性転換手術に道を開いた著者が，手術に至る道のりを明かすとともに，性のあり方，社会のあり方について訴える。

書評

『私の体は神様がイタズラで造ったの？　性同一性障害を超えて』 池田　稔著

176ページ／本体1600円
ISBN4-946448-96-9　C0047　Y1600E 悠飛社

"Did God make my body mischievously? Beyond the gender-identity disorder" by IKEDA Minoru

　決して、冷やかしだとか、ふざけているのだとか思わないでください。
　……自分自身ではどうしても解決できないことで、
　長年、悩み苦しんできたのです。
　……私は、性同一性障害者です。　　（患者のメールより）
　医師と性同一性障害者とのメールのやりとりから見えてくる様々な問題。
　性同一性障害者の苦悩と、この病気を取り巻く現状を、
　性同一性障害と向き合ってきた医師が真摯に語ります。

性同一性障害〜性転換の朝（あした）　吉永みち子著

集英社新書
本体680円（＋税）
ISBN 4-08-720020-5

Gender-identity disorder - The next morning of changing sex by YOSHINAGA Michiko

　
吉永　みち子 (よしなが みちこ)
一九五〇年埼玉県川口市生まれ。東京外語大学インドネシア語学科卒。競馬専門誌「勝馬」記者、夕刊紙「日刊ゲンダイ」記者などを経て専業主婦の後『気がつけば騎手の女房』で大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞受賞。著書に『繋がれた夢』『下宿屋さん』（講談社）『シンザン物語』（大和書房）『子供を蝕む家族病』（小学館）『斗酒空拳』（世界文化社）他多数。


身体は女なのに頭脳は男、またはその反対。胎児期の性決定メカニズムの狂いから生じる「性同一性障害」は人知れぬ心の傷を「彼」や「彼女」に与えてきた。その悩みを解消すべく立ち上がったのが、埼玉医大総合医科センターの特別チームだった。原科孝雄教授を中心とした医師団の手術を追いつつ、悩みを持つ多くの実例も検証し、「男」と「女」の原点のドキュメントがいまここにまとまった。これは、性の分かれ道に立ちつくす、すべての人びとに贈る性転換医療最前線からの希望に満ちた迫真のレポートである。

性同一性障害の基礎と臨床

山内俊雄（埼玉医科大学教授）　編著
執筆者：
澤田新一郎、山内　俊雄、加澤　鉄士、塚田　　攻、内島　　豊、
原科　孝雄、阿部　輝夫、都築　忠義、豊嶋　良一、針間　克己、
東　　優子、森野ほのほ、深津　　亮

新興医学出版社 200101　A5判　230頁　定価（本体4300＋税）ISBN4-88002-431-7
臨床医学：内科系
精神医学

Basics and Clinic on Gender Identity Disorder compiled by YAMAUCHI Toshio

性同一性障害と法律 論説・資料・Ｑ＆Ａ →目次
石原明  大島俊之 編著  

3,200円 (2001/05/10) 晃洋書房 ; ISBN:4-7710-1228-8 21cm　280p

Legislation on Gender Identity Disorder -- Theses, Materials, Q&As by ISHIHARA Akira and OSHIMA Toshiyuki

性差別と暴力 性の法律学 続 有斐閣選書 (205)
角田 由紀子 著

1,700円 (2001/03/01) 有斐閣 ; ISBN:4-6412-8045-2 19 cm 224 p

Sexual Discrimination and Violence by TSUNODA Yukiko

＃ 「第１章　性的マイノリティの権利」の最初に，GIDに関する記載がある。

As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl
John Colapinto 著

邦題：ブレンダと呼ばれた少年

ハードカバー - 279 p / 1 Ed 版 (2000/02/02)
HarperCollins Publishers ; ISBN: 0060192119 ; サイズ(cm): 24 x 17
ペーパーバック - 304 p (2001/03)
Harper Perennial ; ISBN: 0060929596 ; サイズ(cm):

Book Reviews
X + Y = Z By Natalie Angier (The New York Times Book Review, February 20, 2000)
A sensitive account of a traumatic childhood By Josh Zelman (CNN Book News March 30, 2000)

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Nature vs. Nurture

In As Nature Made Him, author John Colapinto offers a powerful true story that may shake beliefs you take for granted -- not least that doctors can be trusted to work in their patients' best interests. In lucid, impassioned prose, Colapinto, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, traces the life of David Thiessen, a boy sex-changed to female during infancy as part of a cruel experiment. In 1965, David (then named Bruce) was one of a pair of male twins. After a catastrophic circumcision accident, Bruce's penis was destroyed, while his brother Brian remained intact. Devastated, the twins' parents turned for help to Dr. John Money, a world-famous Johns Hopkins psychologist. They were searching for a solution. Instead, they found themselves pawns in a test designed to confirm Money's pet theory -- that gender is a purely social phenomenon, a matter of nurture, not nature.

Indeed, for 20 years, the doctor touted the success of the so-called "John/Joan" case. The surgically created girl, he claimed, had grown up contentedly feminine, in contrast to her rough-and-tumble brother. She fulfilled numerous stereotypes: shy, neat, and pretty, she loved babies and cooking. Most importantly, she considered herself a girl and seemed female to others. Gender, Money announced, was malleable. This finding was hugely influential, seized upon by everyone from feminist academics to pediatricians. And Money, already extremely powerful, rose to the top of his field, wielding enormous influence over surgeons and psychologists alike.

The real story did not emerge until many years later. For in fact, "Brenda" (the name the infant was given after surgery) had never felt female -- and was not perceived as a girl by others. Tormented by her peers, she was nicknamed "cavewoman" and sneered at for her mannish gait. She regularly got into brawls and was failing academically. Even the few bonds the unhappy child formed with tomboys were fragile, since she was perceived not as a tough girl but as a boy in a dress. In her teens, Brenda became suicidally depressed. She refused to go back to see Dr. Money, with whom she'd had annual visits until the age of 14. And she began to dress as a boy. Finally, her parents broke down and told her the truth. "More than anything else," David recalls of this revelation. "I was relieved. Suddenly it all made sense why I felt the way I did."

"Brenda" reverted to male. He had surgery to create a cosmetic penis and therapy to deal with his rage and depression. He changed his name to David, a reference, in part, to the biblical figure who slew a giant. Eventually, he married a loving woman with three children by other fathers. But all the while, the scientific theory supposedly based on his experience continued to guide medical protocols. Money claimed that the family had been "lost to follow-up" -- despite the fact that they never moved or changed their phone number. The case had special influence on the treatment of intersexed (that is, hermaphroditic) infants, who were increasingly "normalized" to female, despite evidence that, like Thiessen, many such children feel traumatized by the surgery and grow up to reject their gender. Finally, in 1996, biologist Milton Diamond, a longtime professional enemy of Money, tracked Thiessen down and revealed the truth to his colleagues, setting off a bomb that effectively destroyed Money's reputation.

Despite its wrenching subject matter, As Nature Made Him is an inspiring read. Colapinto has done a thorough job researching not only Thiessen's medical treatment but the social context in which it took place. And as with the best journalistic nonfiction, the author uses vivid and suspenseful storytelling to make complex ideas accessible. Colapinto builds an especially strong case against Dr. Money -- revealing horrific details about the doctor's treatment of the twins, to whom he showed pornography and even pressured to act out sexual acts, all in an attempt to "cement" their gender identities. Most of all, though, this is the story of one person: David Thiessen. With compassion and insight, Colapinto illuminates the courage of a remarkable individual who triumphed over the miserable treatment he received to become -- in the most literal sense -- a self-made man.

Emily Nussbaum

From the Publisher
In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment. On the advice of a renowned expert in gender identity and sexual reassignment at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the boy was surgically altered to live as a girl. This landmark case, initially reported to be a complete success, seemed all the more remarkable since the child had been born an identical twin: his uninjured brother, raised as a boy, provided to the experiment the perfect matched control.

The so-called twins case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine and the social sciences; cited repeatedly over the past thirty years as living proof that our sense of being male or female is not inborn but primarily the result of how we are raised. A touchstone for the feminist movement, the case also set the precedent for sex reassignment as standard treatment for thousands of newborns with similarly injured, or irregular, genitals.

But the case was a failure from the outset. From the start the famous twin had, in fact, struggled against his imposed girlhood. Since age fourteen, when finally informed of his medical history, he made the decision to live as a male. John Colapinto tells this extraordinary story for the first time in As Nature Made Him. Writing with uncommon intelligence, insight, and compassion, he also sets the historical and medical context for the case, exposing the thirty-year-long scientific feud between Dr. John Money and his fellow sex researcher, Dr. Milton Diamond--a rivalry over the nature/nurture debate whose very bitterness finally brought the truth to light. A macabre tale of medical arrogance, As Nature Made Him is first andforemost a human drama of one man's-and one family's--amazing survival in the face of terrible odds. The human intimacy of the story is all the greater for the subject's courageous decision to step out from behind the pseudonym that has shrouded his identity for the past thirty years.

What People Are Saying
From the moment I read about the baby boy whom doctors changed into a girl, I yearned to know the story from the child's point of view: What did he think? What did he feel? How did his life turn out? As Nature Made Him tells that story--heartbreaking, infuriating, but also fascinating--an object lesson in medical hubris and close-the-ranks collusion, and in the tragic results when ideology trumps common sense in thinking about sex and gender. Above all, it's a deeply moving human drama and a testament to the inner strength and courage of the child who never lost touch with who he really was. Deborah Tannen

From the Critics
From School Library Journal  
YA-A sorrowful account of a healthy male baby who, after suffering from a botched circumcision, was surgically altered and raised as a girl. Beyond that, it is the story of a psychologist from Johns Hopkins who would not see that the transsexual "remedy" was a grievous error since that admission meant the loss of the fame, power, and acceptance gained from his theories on gender identity. The book is in actuality a reporting of the facts of the case: the medical diagnosis; the surgery; the results; and the terrible effects the gender switch had on Bruce Reimer (soon to be Brenda), her twin, and their parents. By adolescence, despite hormone treatments, Brenda's misery was so complete that a switch back to the gender of birth was inescapable. Thus was David born. The tragedy of this family was compounded by the details of the famous Dr. Money's refusal to accept the failure of this treatment. One is forced to wonder how many other children who are afflicted with genital anomalies, whether from physician error or from a congenital defect, have suffered due to the ongoing nature versus nurture debate of scientists. This is a compelling story that will educate teens about some serious physical, psychological, and scientific issues. Because of interviews on television recently, David Reimer's story may already be familiar to many of them.-Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|
 
From Deirdre Donahue - USA Today  
Beautifully read by Howard McGillin, As Nature Made Him contains a powerful lesson about the importance of questioning the big authorities and of listening to small children.
 
From Natalie Angier - New York Times Book Review  
As John Colapinto makes achingly clear in this riveting, cleanly written and brilliantly researched account of a world-famous case, Money's effort to prove the plasticity of human sexual identity by transforming Bruce into Brenda was a cataclysmic failure.
 
From Library Journal  
We've all heard the famous case of the boy raised as a girl after his circumcision was botched, supposedly a triumph for nurturists. Now he's an adult, living as a man with a family. Based on an award-winning Rolling Stone article, this book recounts the ordeal of "John/Joan," whose full identify will be revealed here. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
 

The True Story of JOHN / JOAN By John Colapinto (The Rolling Stone, December 11, 1997. Pages 54-97) (size 135kByte)
この本のもとになった「ローリング・ストーン」誌の記事

Sexual Identity Not Pliable After All, Report Says By Natalie Angier ( The New York Times, March 14, 1997)
著者が当事者への取材をするきっかけになった、ニューヨークタイムズの記事

ブレンダと呼ばれた少年 ジョンズ・ホプキンス病院で何が起きたのか

ジョン・コラピント・著
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単行本 - 327 p (2000/10/01)
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性のアイデンティティの分化とは 小西聖子（毎日新聞 ２０００年１１月１２日）
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性を取り戻すための壮絶な戦いの記録 広岡　守穂（中央大学教授・政治思想） （読売新聞 ２０００年１２月１０日）

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Becoming a Woman
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Hormonal Management
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The Economics of Full-Time
Transsexual Personal and Sexual Relations
The Rite of Incorporation
Appendix: Review of the Literature
Bibliography
Index

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