Journey to womanhood: Transgender individual tells her story
Kalamazoo Gazette
by Linda S. Mah
Thursday April 16, 2009, 8:00 AM
http://www.mlive.com/living/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/04/journey_to_womanhood_transgend.html (http://www.mlive.com/living/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/04/journey_to_womanhood_transgend.html)
Amy Hunter, shown here at her home in Alamo Township, had gender-reassignment surgery in 2008 to become a woman. She describes living as a woman in a man's body as "spiritual dyslexia." "It's not just unhappiness," she says. "Your sensibilities don't match with how you're being socialized. I felt very disconnected at a very early age."