There are a lot of good books about people like me now. There are memoirs and textbooks by Jamison Green, Leslie Feinberg, Helen Boyd, LaDonna Rose, Susan Stryker, Julia Serrano, Chaz Bono, Deborah Rudacille, and many, many others. All of these stories have helped change trans issues from something extraordinary to something more commonplace, from a single, simple narrative to a series of messier ones, moving up toward s time when, as Robert Hunter once wrote, "things we've never seen will seem familiar."
- She's Not There: A Life In Two Genders
This amazing book by my hero Jennifer Finney Boylan is heart warming to me, and I believe it is to everyone who is going through transition. As s he writes, today we have more resources, and more stories were written then ever.
However, I feel that in my case, No one has ever written about this combination. There is a lot out there written about the Off the Derech community - people leaving the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish world, and there is a lot written about people transitioning into living their respective self-identified gender.
But I haven't found anything written about a dual transition.
Therefore, I have decided to start a blog, and write down my own personal experience, and weekly updates. It will help me foremost reflect on my experiences, and hopefully help others in where ever they are in life.
I hope to post the first post tomorrow!
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