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Title: Trans author hopes book will help others
Post by: Shana A on December 17, 2009, 08:31:47 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 17, 2009, 08:31:47 AM
Trans author hopes
book will help others
Published 12/17/2009
by Chuck Colbert
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4404 (http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4404)
She heard the same advice over and over: "You are so good at explaining this, you ought to write a book."
At first Joanne Herman, who lives in Boston, just didn't see the need. And yet the same message kept coming back at her: "No, you really do need to write a book."
Herman, 56, began to wonder. Why is it that so many people don't seem to understand transgender people and their concerns? Long story short, she took the advice. Her book, Transgender Explained: For Those Who Are Not (AuthorHouse), was released in the fall. It is an outgrowth of a series of 20 columns she wrote for the Advocate over a two-year period.
book will help others
Published 12/17/2009
by Chuck Colbert
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4404 (http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4404)
She heard the same advice over and over: "You are so good at explaining this, you ought to write a book."
At first Joanne Herman, who lives in Boston, just didn't see the need. And yet the same message kept coming back at her: "No, you really do need to write a book."
Herman, 56, began to wonder. Why is it that so many people don't seem to understand transgender people and their concerns? Long story short, she took the advice. Her book, Transgender Explained: For Those Who Are Not (AuthorHouse), was released in the fall. It is an outgrowth of a series of 20 columns she wrote for the Advocate over a two-year period.