Jamison Green
Autor de Becoming a Visible Man
Sobre El Autor
Jamison Green is board chair of Gender Education and Advocacy, a non-profit educational corporation, and a board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute and the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. He has also been featured in documentary films and books. He holds mostrar más an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Oregon. mostrar menos
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This book speaks to both the larger culture and challenges in the trans community and the more individual ones experienced by the author and his family. I found it interesting and yet heart breaking how each of the sectors of the LGBTQ communities still fight against each other. I so wish we could accept people for what and where they are, not jockeying for position over one another.
In a small way I’ve never felt comfortable in my body- not gender- or sex-wise, but always vaguely disappointed in its lack of strength and my inefficient shape. When I had my first child and had to have a c-section, it took me a long time to find any affection for that body, especially as I struggled with breast-feeding and such, all things I had been raised to expect a female body could do with ease, or at least without so much of a battle.
I can’t imagine how very horrible it would be to reject the actual shape and function of my apparent gender, how very lost one would feel, how right it would be to finally match up the bits with the brain, be who you are. This book gave me a bit of a glimpse into this process.
I recommend it for anyone interested in knowing more about transition and the transitioning community. I have much to learn.… (más)