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Summary:

"If you are transgendered, the feeling of wanting your body to match the sex you feel you are never goes away. For some, though, especially those who grew up before trans people were widely out and advocating for equality, these feelings were often compartmentalized and rarely acted upon. Now that gender reassignment has become much more commonplace, many of these people may feel increasing pressure to finally undergo the procedures they have always secretly wanted. Ken Koch was one of those people. Married twice, a veteran, and a world traveler, a health scare when he was sixty-three prompted him to acknowledge the feelings that had plagued him since he was a small child. By undergoing a host of procedures, he radically changed his appearance and became Anne Koch. In the process though, Anne lost everything that Ken had accomplished. She had to remake herself from the ground up. Hoping to help other people in her age bracket who may be considering transitioning, Anne describes the step by step procedures that she underwent, and shares the cost to her personal life, in order to show seniors that although it is never too late to become the person you always knew you were, it is better to go into that new life prepared for some serious challenges. Both a fascinating memoir of a well-educated man growing up trans yet repressed in the mid-twentieth century, and a guidebook to navigating the tricky waters of gender reassignment as a senior, It Never Goes Away shows how what we see in the television world of Transparent translates in real life."-- [Amazon.com]

Table of Contents:

• The early years
• Dental school and the professional years
• My first step: facial feminization surgery
• Gender reassignment surgery
• My observation on the gender reassignment surgery process
• The role of therapy
• Beginning the transition process
• Further impressions from my gender transition
• Reality, myths, and the future of transgender health care
• Would I do it again? Regrets and mistakes I made
• Epilogue.

Author/Creator:

Koch, Anne L. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

It never goes away: gender transition at a mature age [by Koch, A.L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: It never goes away [by Koch, A.L.] (New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019] — ISBN 9780813598390; LCCN 2018037965; OCLC Number 1050141850)

Subjects:

Koch, Anne L.

Transgender people — United States — Biography

Older transsexuals — United States — Biography

Male-to-female transsexuals

Transgender people — Identity

Transgender people

Older transsexuals

United States

Genres:

Autobiographies

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ77.8.K63 A3 2019eb

ISBNs:

9780813598437 (electronic bk.)
0813598435 (electronic bk.)
9780813598390 [Invalid]
0813598397 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1124761658