 A very good story, but....
(...)Cossey did a very good job of writing with this book and the book I Am Woman book that preceded. However, while the books probably do a lot to help those with chromosomal abnormalities they do a great disservice to the gender dysphoric community. Cossey has a chromosome condition that most desiring to change genders do not have. The books written by Cossey have dazzled some people to the point that they look up to her as a role model for transsexuality and the lines between a genuine physical condition like Cossey's and a mental condition (gender dysphoria)get blurred. Years ago I too was inspired and blinded by Cossey's book and got railroaded into a sex-change operation that turned out not to be right for me and it was all allowed to happen because the medical community also is blinded and proper Standards of Care are not in operation. That's how I was able to slip through the cracks. I am only one of many who have found out that we are non-transsexual gender dysphorics and can heal our gender dysphoria if we are honest and open about our lives and commit to psychotherapy. The author would do good to come out with a third book apoligizing for all the people who read the last two books and were mezmerized and railroaded into surgery that was wrong for them. The author should become an advocate of better Standards of Care for the gender dysphoric so more people like myself are not damaged for the rest of their lives.
 The tortoise and the hare
I have mixed emotions about this book, for purely personal reasons. I too have transitioned and indeed underwent surgery in May 2003. I read this book back to back with April Ashleys Odessey. It was a wierd sensation, like holding up a mirror to my own life. In the case of Caroline's story our lives diverged at around 17, when she showed a level of courage I lacked, it cost me 20 years of my life and a great deal of heartache to find my way back. This book like April's should never be out of print. It should be available in every school and every library. One thing that doesn't change is the level of general ignorance and the unbelievable disregard that journalists show for real peoples emotions and lives. Whereever you are Caroline I wish you all the happiness there is.
My Story a wonderful and insightful true story
Caroline has done nothing less than a superb job in telling of her story and the may hardships and adventures. Her ability to convey these events as they took place is a very heart warming tale of her journey through a very difficult situation that some of us must make in our lives. Her hardships are tempered with those of happy days where she had found many friends. Her vivid descriptions of the heataches is telling of the tribulations she has endured. Her loves and tragic losses are given in such a way that the reader feels her pain as well as her joys. She now lives in the U.S.A. somewhere near Atlanta. But her life has and continues to bring many of us warmth and hope through her books. This is one book that I have enjoyed reading and will always cherish my entire life. I only wish I had transitioned as early as her and had known this beautiful woman. Like so many I would love her to autograph the book.
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