Richard-Rachel Lafayette - The Transexual

1967, English, Richard-Rachel Lafayette,

Full title: "The Transexual: The True Story of a Man Turned Woman!" by Richard-Rachel Lafayette. The publication is an autobiography translated from French by Jacques Benoit.

"Richard-Rachel in his and her search for sexual identity was willing to go in any direction to accomplish this end. The story presents a sexual adventure of self-discovery. Growing up in the small house of his parents in the French wine country educated Richard about conjugal sex. His father's continuous ridicule was balanced by his mother's intimate attention."

"He tells of early encounters with male and female schoolmates and his teacher. Escaping to Paris at the first opportunity, he became the pampered guest of a wealthy land-owner, who used Richard-Rachel for his pleasure. An x-ray disclosed that the feminine young man had a woman's genital architecture within him, in addition to his modest visible manhood."

"The [autobiography] is based upon tape-recorded sessions in the psychiatrist's office. The sessions were not psychiatric in intent. Transexualism — crossing over from one sex to another — is increasingly more common, now that surgical techniques have improved to the point where there is reasonable assurance of success in such an operation. There are many transvestites and pseudo-hermaphrodites in the world, but Richard Lafayette proved to be a real freak of nature [I hate the language which was used to describe gender non-conforming people at that time], a whimsical mistake that at first caused him much grief."

"We have seen his painful awareness of the fact that he was different, his attempts to cope with the problem and overcome it and conform to society's dictates. In retrospect, it seems inevitable that he should fail in these endeavors. Since he was basically a woman, his "homosexual" activities were a natural consequence, as were his desires to dress as a woman."

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