Becoming a Visible Man

This book comes highly recommended. It is deeply inspiring and empowering. It is incredibly thorough and informative in every aspect of female to male social and physical transition (albeit in the USA) yet the author retains a very personal viewpoint.

He describes: the pain of losing his lesbian partner, the challenge of taking over the FTM group in San Francisco when the former organiser (Lou Sullivan) dies, his continued attempts over 20 years to have sexual relations with women as a woman, his decision to have lower surgery. He documents the advancements legal, social and cultural for transsexual people.

This is a book that is so in depth, interesting and yet easy to read, it would be a shame if mostly only FTM’ s read it. — Charlie Kiss