Subjects:  1. Christianity    2. Gender identity    3. Sex    4. Transsexualism    5. Transsexuals   

Subjects:  1. Biochemistry    2. Gender Identity    3. Gender Studies    4. Gender identity disorders    5. Identification (Psychology)    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Mental Health    8. Mental Illness    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. Transsexualism    12. therapy   

Subjects:  1. Alternative Sexual Behavior    2. Discrimination    3. Gay Studies    4. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    5. Gays    6. General    7. Law    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Legal status, laws, etc    10. Lesbian Studies    11. Comparative law    12. Constitutional & administrative law    13. English Law    14. Gay & Lesbian studies    15. Sexual behaviour   

Reviews (9)

I love this book
Caroline Cossey was a successful model and appeared in rock videos such as SOME LIKE IT HOT, RIO, and others.She was outed as a transsexual and her modelling career was damaged. This book is a great read of a woman who has survived and thrived despite childhood abuse and transphobia as an adult.

A very good story, but....
(...) The tortoise and the hare
I have mixed emotions about this book, for purely personal reasons.I too have transitioned and indeed underwent surgery in May 2003.I read this book back to back with April Ashleys Odessey.It was a wierd sensation, like holding up a mirror to my own life.In the case of Caroline's story our lives diverged at around 17, when she showed a level of courage I lacked, it cost me 20 years of my life and a great deal of heartache to find my way back.This book like April's should never be out of print.It should be available in every school and every library.One thing that doesn't change is the level of general ignorance and the unbelievable disregard that journalists show for real peoples emotions and lives.Whereever you are Caroline I wish you all the happiness there is. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Sexual Behavior    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Case studies    6. General    7. Great Britain    8. Sex change    9. Transsexuals    10. Tula   

Subjects:  1. Law and legislation    2. Legal status, laws, etc    3. Sex change    4. Transsexuals    5. United States   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Reference    5. Biography & Autobiography / General    6. Biography: general    7. Trafford Publishing,trafford,No-Man\'s-Land,Paula Goergen,05-0466,1-4120-5568-7,050466,1412055687    8. Transsexuals   

Subjects:  1. 1869-1936    2. Alternative Sexual Behavior    3. Biography    4. Female-to-male transsexuals    5. Garland, Jack Bee,    6. General    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Sociology    9. United States    10. Biography: general    11. Garland, Jack Bee    12. Gay & Lesbian studies   

Subjects:  1. 1946-    2. Australia    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Gender Studies    7. Lesbians    8. Social Science    9. Specific Groups - Lesbians    10. Spry, Jennifer,    11. Transsexualism    12. Transsexuals    13. Sex & sexuality    14. Spry, Jennifer   

Subjects:  1. Gender Identity    2. Gender Studies    3. Gender identity disorders    4. Identification (Psychology)    5. Mental Illness    6. Psychology    7. Sex Therapy    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Transsexualism    11. therapy    12. Clinical psychology    13. Sexual behaviour   

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Reality about transsexuals.
Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox tell it like it is.They say that there is no such thing as a sex-change.Transsexuals change their bodies to align with their minds and spirits.Speaking as a woman of transsexualexperience, this is one of the best books on the suject which I have everread. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Gender Studies    2. Social Science    3. Sociology    4. Transsexualism   

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A Lovely Fantasy
To Be a Woman is the fictional story of a writer who goes to NYC to live as a woman to write a book about the experience, gets paid to do this by his publisher, finds a wonderful furnished apartment rent-free, gets a job as a female temp at the top of the payscale, finds love, gets electrolysis which immediately makes his complection beautiful, and gets referred to a surgeon in record time.For transgendered people this is a lovely fantasy; but everything happens far too easily and quickly to be real, as the author admits.If only, if only.... Interesting feelings in the book but I doubt it is for real
As a transgendered m to f person I had heard of this book through the community, so I was interested to read it and see how good it was. Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Diaries    3. McClain, Jerry    4. Novelists, American    5. Sex change    6. Transsexuals    7. United States   

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Pure Genius
I decided to write this review because I'v read the book and I personaly know Sara Davidmann, Its a great book because there are no other books out there that explore the secret world of Transvestism. Not only that but you get a real feeling for the people that are mentioned and photographed in the book and what their lives are like.
Brilliant, Sara Davidmann is great!
If you are interested in photography and more importantly some fascinating and touching accounts of trans-gender individuals, then this is well worth a look. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Gender Studies    2. General    3. Human Sexuality    4. Photo Essays    5. Photography    6. Photographs: portraits    7. Photography / General    8. Transsexuals   

Subjects:  1. Disability    2. Jurisprudence    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal status, laws, etc    6. Sex and law    7. Sociological jurisprudence    8. Transsexuals    9. Gender studies    10. Jurisprudence & philosophy of law    11. Law / General   

Reviews (7)

A good addition to a transition package....
I am a MTF trannsexual employee and I am in the process of transitioning at work.I put together a package of information for the HR dept and my boss.All involved have taken the time to read the material, including this book and the coworker's guide.All have said that the approach I've used will help things go smoothly. Not for an FtM and not for a casual work transition
As an FtM transitioning in a workplace of reasonable humans beings, I bought this book looking for something to help them out when I transitioned.When I got it, my supervisor and I looked it over and decided that it, in fact, would make people too nervous, more than they would be otherwise -- bringing up anxiety about restrooms (there's a lot of talk about restrooms), giving permission for coworkers to express inappropriate behavior and ask rude questions, etc. Clear, sensitive, no-nonsense, informative resource.
This is a book I can recommend to our counselors, job developers and employers alike to increase awareness, understanding, and more comfort around issues which may be very new to many people.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics / Training    2. Gender Studies    3. Social Science    4. Sociology    5. Business & Economics    6. Business / Economics / Finance    7. Employment    8. Gay rights    9. Human Resources & Personnel Management    10. Training    11. Transsexuals   

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One of the first "ebooks" ever
I really like what this publisher does. This was one of the first ebooks ever released -- and yat it has way more effects than the ebooks coming out nowadays. The sound track is incredible. The story is fast-paced and held me through every minute. However, the platform/layout is not as easy as what's available now. But the publisher knows this. I emailed them at whitebones@windstormcreative.com and mentioned that I liked the books but they should think about laying it out using 2001 tech. They said they planned too... and if anyone sends them the inside flap of this first edition CD they'll send you a copy of the new format for FREE. That's what I call customer service. Overall, a great story made better with a ton of anime-like artwork and a stand-alone A+ rock soundtrack. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fiction    2. Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure    3. General    4. Science Fiction - General    5. Unabridged Audio - Fiction/Science Fiction & Fantasy    6. American Science Fiction And Fantasy    7. Fantastic fiction    8. Future Fiction    9. Science fiction    10. Transsexualism    11. Virtual reality   

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Integrating Perspectives: Consumers & Providers
Dallas Denny should be congratulated for pulling together the threads from both the trans community and the (mental) health community to form rich material for the truthseeker and researcher alike: provocative discussion and dialogue on the intriguing and oft-elusive phenomenon of "transgender identity" over the course of the past half-century.Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Sexual Behavior    2. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    3. Gender Studies    4. Gender identity    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. Transsexualism    9. Cultural studies    10. Social Science / Sociology / General   

Subjects:  1. Psychology    2. Sex change    3. Transsexuals   

Subjects:  1. Alternative Sexual Behavior    2. England    3. Human Sexuality    4. Psychology    5. Public opinion    6. Reference    7. Transsexuals    8. Transvestites    9. Gender studies    10. Sexual behaviour   

Reviews (6)

Second Serve reviewed
Dr.Renee Richards was much in the news during the late seventies when she sought to be allowed to take part in women's tennis matches. She was successful in her battles to do this. This book was later made into a tv movie starring Vanessa Redgrave. This book is clearly not about a true transsexual person. Dr. Richards is a transvestite who had many homosexual encounters. She someone thinks that having gay sex while in women's clothing somehow made her totally heterosexual. The book states 'heterosexual as a man and as a woman'. The book goes into graphic examples of her pre and post surgical sex life. Totally unnecessary. She claims that the surgery made her life 'unbelievibly satisfying'. Now she tells People magazine that the sex reassignment was a mistake and urges trans people to seek psychiatric help such as prozac or institutionalization.

Second Serve
I am a 37 year old transsexual activist. I was soarly disapointed in the book 'Second Serve:The Renee Richards Story". Since writing this book Dr. Richards has expressed her regrets in interviews many times about her sex change surgery. She wishes that she had been instiutionalised or given prozac and thorazine instead.Her description of her life seems now to be that of a transvestite rather than a transsexual. The book describes the life of someone much different than the average transsexual. She describes Renee as another self who would overpower her Richard self and practically take over. She would emphasize again and again that she was not ahomosexual. Her Renee self was attracted to men and her Richard self was attracted to women. This is not transsexualism.I would certainly not recomment this travesty of a book to any young person who was struggling with her or his transsexualism. This book could cause more harm than good.

SECOND CHANCE...
This is another intriguing story in the evolving history of transgender narratives. Here, the individual with the gender dysphoria was a noted eye surgeon with the financial resources necessary to achieve her goal.Still, her resources and did not prevent the inner turmoil and trauma that she underwent during a journey that took her from being Richard Raskin to Renee Richards. It was a journey that was, at times, to be marked by a curious ambivalence.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. General    5. Ophthalmologists    6. Tennis players    7. Transsexuals    8. United States