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LA Writer Pens Transgender Romance Novel


By Richard Horgan on January 27, 2012 10:15 AM

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/jamie-stryker-chancesatromance-two-spirit-ranch-transgender_b51746



Jaime Stryker's new romance novel Two Spirit Ranch sounds at first plot-glance like pretty standard genre fare. A successful female lawyer flees Manhattan for the quieter confines of Montana, where she meets and falls in love with a local sheriff.

But the heroine of this one  is actually a transgendered female. The title of LA based Stryker's book is derived from an old Native American belief that some tribe members could assume the identity of the opposite sex and "still be accepted and respected by their community."

An older Native American friend tells me that it was people like us that were often honored as the tribe's official Bruja or witch doctor because it is thought that they are closely attuned to both male and female spirits. This is true in many South American tribes and in the aboriginal groups of other third world countries as well. There are many like myself who it has been said can think with both sides of their brain. Too bad our society is so technologically developed and sophisticated that they are no longer sensitive to the natural and supernatural that aboriginal types felt and understood as an absolute reality in their lives.