The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes One Love Affair and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution

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"Part biography part cultural history The First Man-Made Man is a dramatic revelatory narrative that brightly illuminates the psyche of the first female-to-male."Chicago Sun Times In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a womans body there were no words to describe her condition; transsexual had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. In a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin she experimented with breakthrough technologies that ultimately transformed the human body and revolutionized medicine. Michael Dillons incredible story from upper-class orphan girl to Buddhist monk reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.