Transsexual Author Calpernia Addams on Gender and Sexuality
By Calpernia Addams on June 30, 2008 in Transposition
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/transposition/200806/transsexual-author-calpernia-addams-gender-and-sexualityHello! I hope you'll indulge me in a brief bit of self-promotion as I make my long-overdue introduction to the readers of Psychology Today. My name is Calpernia Addams, and I've lived an amazing life, full of incredible adventures and experiences with many more to come. I'm excited to share my thoughts with you under the auspices of this magazine. I am a veteran of the ground campaign of the first Gulf War, a memoirist (Mark 947), activist (Eve Ensler's V Day, various GLBT issues), actress and I also happen to be a transsexual woman -- someone who was assigned the male gender role at birth, but soon realized that medical, legal and social transition to female was much more in line with how I felt inside.
Whatever you may know, or think, or think you know of transsexual people, I can promise you a bit of new information with a dash of humor. I've seen life from both sides of the gender divide at different points in my life, as well as from outside it altogether, and with that experience comes some pretty interesting insight.
