In Butler's discussion of intersex issues and people, Butler addresses the case of David Reimer, a person whose sex was medically "reassigned" from male to female after a botched circumcision at eight months of age. Reimer was "made" female by doctors, but later in life identified as "really" male, married and became a stepfather to his wife's three children, and went on to tell his story in "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl", which he wrote with John Colapinto. Reimer died by suicide in 2004.