Transgender women and men live among us, preferably incognito and with perfect "passing". What attitude to life do they have – before and after the outing, hormone therapy, and maybe even surgery?
Danièlle Weiss describes in clear and open words what it means to be transgender. She sheds light on medical, cultural, psychological, and personal aspects of the "third gender".
'Sometimes I jokingly describe myself as a test-tube woman, an artificially created being, born in the no man's land between the two poles of the sexes, eternally on the way to the woman in me, knowing full well that I will never quite reach her.'
