BOOK REVIEW: Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide to the Transsexual Experience

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BOOK REVIEW: Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience, by Matt Kailey
Testosterone Files, by Max Wolf Valerio

The transgender publishing world is exploding, and these two books, Just Add Hormones and Testosterone Files, are among the best of the recent crop. Both capture what it is like to be an F-to-M, that is, female-to-male, transgendered or transsexual man.

Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for 42 years and then transitioned with hormones and surgery into a self-proclaimed transsexual, also becoming a gay man in the process. His book, Just Add Hormones, is the more analytical of the two, and perhaps more clinically informational.

[Mario]

I just read this book. It is informative, I found personally I didn't agree with alot of what he had to say. It was almost like he was maybe lonely at the time it was written. who knows. But overall a good book.

                                      Marco

[Dennis]

I had the same, Marco. A lot of Matt's book didn't really resonate with me, but it is part of the diversity among us. I did think it was a good read and well written, it didn't really speak to my experience or what I've taken from it. Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green did so more for me.

I haven't read Max Wolf Valerio's book, but I'd like to.

Dennis

[Mario]

Dennis,
         I'm glad it wasn't only me then on Matt's book. I thought maybe I was being too critical. I too would like to read  Max Wolf Valerio's book. I just need to order it. I wonder why these books are not avalible in the "big" bookstores?

                                         Marco