“I knew that I would never in any book find anything about people who were like me...... no poet had yet written about such a being, because it had never occurred to any poet that it could exist.” IdentityRepresentationTransgenderAlonenessGender DysphoriaTransgenderismTransgender Women Book:Man into Woman: The First Sex Change Source: Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
“All other women were allowed to be ugly, to be hideous, to have all kinds of defects and flaws in their appearance. But I had to be pretty; if I did not look good, I had lost any right to exist, to be a woman ......” IdentityInsecurityFemininityTransgenderBeauty StandardsTransgender IssuesGender DysphoriaPrettinessTrans Women Book:Man into Woman: The First Sex Change Source: Man into Woman: The First Sex Change