Sylviane Dullak - Je serai elle, mon odyssée transsexuelle

1983, French, Sylviane Dullak,

Original title: "Je serai elle, mon odyssée transsexuelle" (I will be her, my transsexual odyssey) by Sylviane Dullak. The book was published in 1983 and republished in 1984.

"Look at these two faces. On the left, a man is negative. On the right, a woman is positive. Well, it's one and the same person, because doctor Sylvain Dullak became Sylviane Dullak, a woman doctor!"

"This extraordinary story, in the sense of Edgar Poe, is also the tragedy of a being who suffers, despairs and seeks by all means to get out of the prison of this human body in which she is imprisoned. Because Sylvain is a woman with a man's body who wants to become what he has always been: SHE... Many of us may have a reaction of rejection on this taboo subject of transsexuality, as on that of incest. This cannot be the case with this exemplary, sincere story, written not only by the actor of this great mutation but also by the doctor and psychologist spectator, who looks down on the experience he is living."

"A breathless tale of the nausea of a woman born a man, a hallucinatory description of a self-operation, a leap into the unknown, the birth of a woman on the remains of a rejected male body."

"You will follow from side to side this journey at the end of the night towards a new birth, a kind of strange resurrection... This shocking book is deeply human work and intended for all those who want to deepen our condition. Let us not forget that medicine today teaches us that every being has both male and female hormones, and that, therefore, the other always exists in each of us."

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