Becoming a Visible Man

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Synopsis
The entry to this book is the opening of a college lecture. Green guides a dialogue with students, leading them to a new way of perceiving sex vs. gender vs. sexual orientation. At a later point, he uses a computer analogy: hardware is sex (the body), gender is software (the soul or heart or mind), then the operating system is the congruence or lack of between the two. What if your hardware is a PC running Windows but your software is all MAC based? How long do you suffer in silence before taking action to have them be the same, work together, and feel whole? Green skillfully weaves through multiple related topics of transsexuality, with the focus on female to male, a rapidly growing percentage of the community. He includes current history of the movement to create community rather than isolated individuals, a community far behind its opposite of male to female people. He cites the slower advances in surgical techniques, plus the unwillingness of the "System" to grant them entry. Green, like many others, is not satisfied with the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association's Standards of Care, which sets the "rules" and timelines of processes that most Gender Identity Clinics follow. Green found himself not only transitioning into a male body, but into an activist role. He writes about issues related to hormones, explains surgery options and techniques, social and family ramifications, fears and facing discrimination and bigotry, emotions, sexuality, the push-pull desires of just blending in and being a "guy in the crowd" vs. a spokesman and advocate to further advance transsexual acceptance into mainstream society.
Copyright:
2004

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
234 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780826514578
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Jamison Green
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Self-Help, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Liz Halperin
Proofread By:
avid reader
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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Becoming a Visible Man is one of the better books currently available explaining the politics of transsexual change from an insider's view. Green is quite well-known in the field and a sought-after speaker. His own life is used mainly as example for the issues he raises, yet is captured intensely with his struggles throughout. Many transsexual people write about the struggle to disappear into their new gender status role vs. the need to speak out for themselves and others. Green manages to both investigate this conundrum and find his own answers. Fascinating social history of a civil rights movement that is gaining momentum.