Aimee Norin

Stealth: The Dark Side of Transsexual (Trans People Living, #5) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Many books have been written about public transsexual people. Many stealth trans people live happy, fulfilling lives. This is a story, however, of someone stealth who is tortured in life, abused as a child, attacked for marrying into a conservative world, who feels she cannot defend herself without raising her transness which she has learned to hateand who grows through all that during a time of crisis in her life toward self-acceptance and community.

Stealth: the Dark Side of Transsexual is a Dark Side novel, an exposé about problems a stealth transsexual has over 41 years in transition and how she learns to grow through them: her marriage, legal hassles, doctors misunderstanding, opposition to being labelled transgender, assaults, oppressions, rape, and her inability to defend herself without revealing her secrets.

Stealth novel follows Keiko "Kay" Knapp, a Japanese-American, bi-racial, stealth transsexual, throughout her life to age fifty-nine, including forty-one years in transition. She has "S.R.S." in Asia, becomes a flight attendant, and enjoys a long marriage to a defense contractor associated with military bases. She does not see herself as transgenderin fact, she sees herself as victimized by the paradigm's popularitywhich causes her great distress. Yet she learns to integrate by the ending. Unfortunately, due to a high level of integration with conservative groups in her personal life, she also suffers assaults, intrusions, burglaries, threats, rejections, manipulations from others, mistrust, and lives a life of fear and, apart from her husband, loneliness.

It may seem that too many things happen to Kay in this novel, good and bad, but events shared herein for her life do span decades and are actually few compared to day-to-day and year-to-year events that can occur in an actual person's life. The focus of the novel's incidents are, instead, kinds of things that can happen over decades in a stealth transsexual's life.

Stealth: The Dark Side of Transsexual is written from the perspective of older stealth transsexuals, looking back. Issues that Kay had earlier with denial, about what she attained in transition and how people take her, passed long ago. S:TDSTs tells her story and does not rubber stamp popular social movements. It is called "...The Dark Side..." for a reason, sharing things often glossed over by others, even problems Kay causes for herself with the stealth aspect of her life, making things harder than they need to be. While sex, love, happiness and joy are part of her life, the novel doesn't gloss over Kay's hardships: an inability to actually change biologic sex as she craves, doctors who are untrustworthy, a medical system that reinforces deception from her, arguments with transgenders, personal growth or the delay thereof, violence, legal problems, the way families or "friends" may manipulate to gain secrets, gossip, the way group dynamics change with discovery, hate crimes, oppressions, etc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aimee Norin
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311242532
• Artikelnr.: 70908404

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I am an advocate for trans people, for transgender, transsexual, gender non-conforming and LGBTQI living. I not only write for entertainment but to address issues felt by minorities, which includes trans people as a whole and also minority groups withinviews both popular and unpopularwith an underlying message throughout of the value of life, mutual acceptance, and mutual respect.

PLEASE NOTE: My characters are usually in some form of conflict, working through issues, struggling with society or sometimes even with their own demons in an effort to find love and respect, happiness in life. A novel may walk with a character through her own hell, then glimpse by the end a new way for her to engage in her lifeor an idea may be expressed one way, in one novel, only to be expressed differently in another novel, by the same or another characterhow people's views change over time, in different situations, or as seen by others.

Some novels are happy for the most part, such as "Out of the Closet," "Falling in Love" and "Transmutation." "Falling in Love" is particularly romantic, with some devastation, argument; "Transmutation" is also funny, through it starts out with a death and the protagonist's angry refusal to endure that again. "Transmutation" is a trans utopian future. "Hate Crimes" is a combination of a dream come true, hate crimes, and a plea for peace.

Finally, I must note: I think of myself more as a storyteller than a writer. Transitions are expensive, sometimes costing several multiples of an annual salary, and sometimes the treatment industry charges way too much. In addition, when someone is hurting because she needs to change, or when someone's social or financial life has been affected in relation to a transition, money can be even harder to come by. In order to keep these books coming for free, I usually do not use an outside editor as I make no money off these books at all and editors are costly. I spend a great deal of time with each novel, but if a mistake is noted, please email me at [e-mail] and let me know.

Without an editor, all these novels are all a work-in-progress, and I do depend on feedback about content. I do respond to such feedback in an effort to please, and go back and revise the novels. When enough modifications...