Trading places
Subtitle: when our son became a daughter : a mother's story of a family's transition
By: Jane Baker ; with an afterword by Sarah Ann Baker
Contributors: Baker, Sarah Ann, 1989- writer of afterword
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Braefield Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: United States?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780990626701
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Parents of transsexuals; Biography; Family; Transsexuals; Family relationships; Mother and child; Families; Gender identity; Gender nonconformity; Transsexualism
Description: This memoir recounts one mother's struggle to come to terms with her grown up transsexual daughter. When she learned that her adult son planned to become a daughter, she felt like her child was heading for disaster and she desperately tried to stop the transition. As time progressed, her efforts to stop it led her to learn more and more about transsexualism instead. She also became increasingly aware that her child was happier and more confident as a woman, had more friends than ever before, and in some inexplicable way, actually seemed more "normal." However, Baker's own transition was not so easy. She describes a poetic transfer of dissonance: "I watched my son disappear; it felt like he had died and an entirely different person emerged to replace him. As my child became whole, I became more dissonant. It was as though we were trading places."--Publisher.
Notes: Second statement of responsibility from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291).