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A captivating memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her.

[An] achingly beautiful memoir. Manuel Betancourt, The New York Times Book Review

A universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity. Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There and Good Boy

Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn't even know they were trans. Diana Goetsch's This Body I Wore chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.

How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question that Goets

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    Publisher: Picador USA
    Publication Date: 23/05/2023
    ISBN13: 9781250867155, 978-1250867155
    ISBN10: 1250867150

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    A captivating memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her.

    [An] achingly beautiful memoir. Manuel Betancourt, The New York Times Book Review

    A universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity. Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There and Good Boy

    Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn't even know they were trans. Diana Goetsch's This Body I Wore chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.

    How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question that Goets

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