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Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience

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So often booka written about a lived experience can frustate and even alienate. The reader is made to feel like an outsider.

I am pleased to say that JUST ADD HORMONES does't only reach out, it embraces. All the awkward and intimate questions about what it means to be trans are answered. It's an INSIDER guide but it is not cliquey. It is personal but it is not embarrassing. It is funny and smart and warm.

Recommonded reading for anyone of any gender. So says this man.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a better understanding of the trangendered and transsexual (particularly transmen). As a man in transition, I feel as if Matt Kailey has been reading my mind (or my journal), and he also gave me an idea of what's ahead for me. I have recommended it to all my friends who want to learn more about this part of my life. Good job, Matt.

This is a good read. Overall a decent source of information on FTM and gender reassignment in general. The writer is very unique. Very interesting life story. It's somewhat of a page turner. It talks about how to tell your family and the phases the family will go through as you transition. I read this book and then gave it to my Mom to read with the hopes it would give her some understanding of gender transition. Not what I expected but overall a great book on the topic of transition. I would recommend this book to all FTM, anyone transitioning, or anyone that wants a look into the wonderful world of gender bending. Details the difference between changing gender in general and how the word "sex" is misconceived when the word transsexual is used. I would recommend this book for anyone's library.

While this is not the first book I would recommend for an FTM, it's still on the list. It's insightful, but I would have liked to have read more on the hormonal effects and day to day issues. This book is definitely worth reading though.

This book was a great help in understanding transgenderism. In addition, it is a compelling read, humorous, touching and engrossing.

Sometimes there's a big, fast striding dog 'trapped' inside that little pussycat just bustin' to get out (and, as in my case, vice versa). "I didn't choose to be transgendered," notes author Matt Kailey, "but I did choose to do something about it." Hormones, as you may have guessed, is what he 'did.' Personally, my philosophy is organic tranny psychological transition (and it's disconcerting hormones are required throughout an entire lifetime) but, hey, Kailey has his own boat to captain and he sure sounds commanding. Indeed, this lightweight book is full of upbeat exposition and wry ruminations, making it super user friendly for all (modern) readers. I dig it.

I have not finished the book yet, but I am already a huge fan of Matt's writing. I have thoroughly enjoyed his persepctive and his story so far. . .

This book is great for anyone who wants to get a first-person perspective on female-to-make gender transition - obviously Matt Kailey doesn't speak for everyone, but his experience gives a good idea of what it's like. I especially appriciated his take on gender stereotypes and gendered expectations - as a man he was no longer "allowed" to show certain emotions (like telling someone that their new baby was "so adorable" because this is seen as unmasculine) or the observation that after having chest surgery he is now allowed to walk around without a shirt, something that he certainly wouldn't have been able to do beforehand.

This was a really good book. He talked alot about his journey into "transmanhood". He also mentioned the way society is and how we may be perceived by the world. I would recommend this book to anyone who is considering or just starting their transition.

This is a perfect book for anyone who is trans or knows someone who is.