How To Change Your Sex: A Lighthearted Look at the ... - Lannie Rose

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becoming androgynous? Then why not try it out? Go to
Chapter 2 in this book—Getting started: Dressing and
going out. It will help get you going with cross-dressing
or dressing androgynously, give you some leads on how
to get connected with support groups on the Internet, and
show you where to meet transgender folks (transsexuals,
cross-dressers, and other gender border-crossers) in the
real world.
3. Do you still think there’s a chance that you are
transsexual? Study it in more depth, so you really
understand what it’s all about. Read some more serious
books, like True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism -
For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping
Professionals by Mildred Brown and Chloe Rounsley. Try
to meet some transsexual folks who are in the process of
changing their sex, or have already done so. Start seeing a
therapist who specializes in gender issues—more on this in
Chapter 6.
4. Are you starting to think that you really might be
transsexual? (Or, if you knew it all along, do you still
know it?) Can you take the bad parts along with the
good? Good. OK, now start cross-living part time. Spend
more and more of your time in your new gender role
doing regular activities like shopping and going to
church, not just going on “adventures.” Try to really
think of yourself as a woman rather than a cross-dressed
man when you are in your femme persona. Does it feel
right to you? Does your old gender role feel wrong to