The label is what you are given when you are born: male or female, male or female. What if, one day, it becomes so unsuitable for you that you have to change it? So you have to fight, give up your family for many years, and sometimes give up friendships you thought were true. Let's get along.
It's one thing to want to change sex, like some famous transvestites, by dint of hormone injections and operations. It's another thing to have to find the sex that is really yours, and that was stolen from you by incompetent medicine, an intractable civil status, and a conformist family.
Barbara Buick, the author of this book, was one of these characters, and it is her tormented life that she tells us about. The pages where she talks about her career at the Music Hall, and the relationships she may have had with famous post-war figures, are of real anecdotal interest.
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