In July 1991, the author underwent a surgical sex change from a man to a woman. The surgery was performed (in Trinidad, Colorado) by Stanley Biber, M.D., dean of sex change operations. This work begins at the time Ms. Griggs decided to pursue the surgery and continues through her recovery. Though the procedure altered the author's body, poignantly accounted for also is the mental transformation.

Passage Through Trinidad: Journal of a Surgical Sex Change

Biographies & Memoirs

Griggs, Claudine

Professionals & Academics

McFarland Publishing

Journal of a Sex Change is an intimate look at the compelling journey from male to female. Griggs provides us with an inside perspective on one of the most private and complicated transformations possible. She recounts her sex change process in compelling detail, from the emotional decision to pursue the surgery, to the procedure itself, to the long and painful recovery process. How did Griggs' decision affect personal relationships, family life and work? What was it like in the first few months after the operation? What is it like for her now to experience the world as a transformed woman? Thoughtful and courageous, Griggs chronicles a journey that not only changed her physiology, but her life.Updated with a new foreword by Judith Halberstam, Griggs' book was originally published as Passage through Trinidad in 1996. Pioneering, it has become a classic firsthand account of the experience of sex reassignment.

Journal of a Sex Change: Passage through Trinidad

Berg Publishers

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

S/he: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes (Dress, Body, Culture)

Through an examination of the experience of transsexuals, this book enhances understanding of how gender can and does function in powerful, complex and subtle ways. The author, who has herself been surgically reassigned, has conducted extensive interviews with transsexuals from many walks of life. Her personal experiences, which inform this book, have given her an access to her subjects that others would likely be denied. While highlighting how the gender identity of transsexuals relates to hormonal and surgical changes in the body as well as to changes in dress, the book investigates the pressures and motivations to conform to expected gender roles, and the ways in which these are affected by social, educational, and professional status. Differences in the experiences of those who change from male to female and those who change from female to male are also examined. Sex reassignment has been the focus of considerable media attention recently, as increasing numbers of people feel able to talk frankly about their personal experiences with gender dysphoria. Strides with medical technology have given transsexuals new opportunities in their lives. This book provides unique insights into how these changes are seen by those people most affected them.

Arts & Photography

Fashion

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy(R) award-winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.Stories and screenplays byAlastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lewis, and Vitaliy Shushko

Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One (Love, Death and Robots)

Literature & Fiction

Scalzi, John

Liu, Ken

MILLER, TIM

Lansdale, Joe

Kloos, Marko

Reynolds,Alastair

Hamilton,Peter F.

United States

Cohesion Press

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

How far is too far for justice?In California, Officer Josie Waller and Detective Emmanuel Cerrillo suspect two bizarre suicides are actually murders. The victims-a teetotaling Baptist preacher who died of a heroin overdose and an ultra-conservative school board member who injected herself with cobra venom-are apparently connected only by their vitriolic homophobia. The suspicious officers launch an unofficial investigation and find more than expected.Across the country, Robert Davenport, a gay English professor at an Ivy League university, is recruited by a clandestine organization "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." In theory, the group wants Davenport to write a publishable manifesto. But he soon begins to wonder whether there's more to his mission than meets the eye. Just how far will he be asked to go? And will the officers find him before it's too late?

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Not a Pipe Publishing

Denial Kills: An Anthology of Poetry and Short Fiction

Burroway, Janet

Gorman, Benjamin

Sibanda, Ndaba

Mehta, Jessica

Valentine, Lydia K

Ransom, Heather S.

Nzinga, Ayodele

Shearin, Viveca

Dye, Zack

Literary

Lumberlane Wall, the murderous giant who stood over seven feet, looked down at his opponent and laughed. "Dwarf," he said, "you've given me such a sight that I almost hate to kill you. A midget with a stick against a man with a battle ax! No one told me the great Orion was insane."In the post-cataclysmic realm of what was once Southern Utah, dwarfs now greatly outnumber the "oversized" humans, who are too often hunted and slaughtered as ineducable savages by the new majority. But Orion questions this. He leaves his home and his community behind in Middle Village and sets out on a quest of personal discovery, as well as to search for an intriguing oversized woman that he's seen traveling alone through the wilderness, where New World survival can be difficult.In the tradition of literature's greatest heroes and journeys, Dwarf Days challenges modern notions of courage, determination, and justice and asks us all to take a look at the values we hold dear.

Dwarf Days

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Tuxtails Publishing, LLC

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