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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.

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