Orlando's Sleep: An Autobiography of Gender [Paperback]

Jennifer Spry (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0934678804 | ISBN-13: 978-0934678803

This is an inspiring story of courage and perseverance toward the hardest goal of all - self acceptance. As a child, Spry cherished the moments when he was left alone at home so he could dress up in his mother's clothes. In adolescence he tried to prove his manhood by competitive sailing and heavy drinking. When even marriage and fatherhood failed to make a man of him, John began the long journey towards recognition of herself as Jennifer, a woman and a lesbian.

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As more stories of our transgendered lives enter the culture, the pathway to acceptance and integration widens. Orlando's Sleep is sure to open closed eyes and melt cold hearts. --author of Gender Outlaw

About the Author

This autobiography by Jennifer Spry explores the complex issues of gender identity, beginning with a boyhood in Australia, through marriage, and her coming out as Jennifer, a transgendered lesbian.

Product Details

• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: New Victoria Publishers (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934678804
• ISBN-13: 978-0934678803
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,315,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars ONE MAN'S JOURNEY TO BECOME A WOMAN, October 5, 2010

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This review is from: Orlando's Sleep: An Autobiography of Gender (Paperback)

Jennifer Spry

Orlando's Sleep:

An Autobiography of Gender

(Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers, 1997) 186 pages

(ISBN: 0-934678-80-4)

(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.8.S695A3 1997)

The author lived forty years as a man,

then changed to a woman, who is a lesbian.

Orlando's Sleep recounts the problems she encountered with:

family, friends, work-colleages, doctors, etc.

in the process of making the decision to change sex--and doing it.

She presents little theory of wanting to become a woman,

only her belief that she was a female from birth--

--despite the fact of living for

more than 40 years known to all as a man.

Secret dressing as a woman

was the first manifestation of Spry's "transgenderism".

Later she had hormone treatments

and sex-change surgery to become a woman physically.

This is a positive and supportive book,

which may be especially of interest

to others facing the same problems.

Search the Internet for similar stories: "Transsexualism--Autobiographies".