![]() Then one day I picked up the newspaper."Įven though she worked for Johns Hopkins, once the epicenter of sex reassignment procedures, the trangendered realm was completely alien to Rudacille, whose last book was about the ethics of animal research. Confusion sharpened into concern when a transwoman, Tacy Ranta, was murdered near a bar about a mile from Rudacille's Arcadia home. After all, the book's inspiration was intensely personal, stemming from her sense of bewilderment when a lesbian friend announced about five years ago that she planned to become a man. Her book editor goaded her into including these private epiphanies, but they occurred naturally. The opening words of the first chapter are Rudacille's, and she goes on to include personal anecdotes about what she learned writing the book, and how she now regards her own gender as a precarious balance, not a static trait. "She's coming at it as a woman who wanted to educate herself," and ended up learning about both the transgendered community and herself. "She's not coming at it from an advocacy position," Beyer said. But, writing as a woman who had no prior contact with the transgendered world, Rudacille "is kind of like a tour guide for people who would find this stuff completely strange." "Science writers don't usually inject themselves into the story," said Dana Beyer, a former ophthalmic surgeon in Chevy Chase who had surgery to become a woman and was interviewed by Rudacille for the book. ![]()
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