Moniek van Dommelen - Ik moniek... een vrouw

1980, Dutch, Moniek van Dommelen,

Original title: "Ik Moniek... een vrouw: Het openhartige verslag van een transseksueel : hoe een "man" een "vrouw" werd" (Me Moniek... a woman: A transsexual's candid account of how a "man" became a "woman")

Here is the biography of Moniek, a transgender woman who made the transition from man to woman in the 70s in the Netherlands. It is the experience of someone who has to go through a difficult and emotional path to become a woman.

This remarkable book chronicles in a moving and sometimes disconcerting way the "transsexualization" of a man who has felt himself to be a woman all his life. He felt like a "stranger in his own body" and nothing could be firm conviction, namely, to have been born in a strange shell.

More than four years ago he began a difficult and painful journey that included exhaustive conversations with psychologists and hormonal treatments; a radical operation finally brought about the final transformation into a woman.

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