Bücher von Perry Desmond

From altar boy to prostitute, from hormone and silicon injections to drastic sex-change surgery, all part of a quest for meaning and self-identity. And then, the greatest change of all...a new person. Through a life-long struggle with transsexuality, Perry finally comes to understand the source of true love. "I thought God had made a mistake. He must have been playing tiddly winks or something when I was born. He should have pressed the girl button, but he pressed the one for boys instead. I wanted desperately to be a woman, and to have money, fame and pleasure. On February 9, 1974, I found what Id been looking for all my life ... Dresses only covered my masculinity. Makeup only masked it. Silicone only reshaped it. Surgery only mutilated it. Underneath, in every cell of my body, the truth was recorded ten million times, in every gene. I was a man!"