Awards

• Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Transgender) 2005

Overview

Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life, and then he changed. With the help of a good therapist, chest surgery, and some strong doses of testosterone, Kailey began living life as the man he'd always wanted to be. Now, in Just Add Hormones, Kailey uses humour and humility to explain his journey toward accepting himself as neither a woman nor someone born male.

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Parts of Just Add Hormones dwell, wittily, on the author's own experiences . . . other chapters offer a cheeky insider's discussion of pesky pronouns, pants-packing, bathroom blues, and on-the-job jitters. But the real worth of Just Add Hormones stems from its thoughtful analysis-at times philosophical, at times political, and at times polemical-of a life-changing decision.--Richard Labonte, Q Syndicate A heartfelt plea for mainstream American society to understand, accept and support gender diversity . . . Kailey describes all with frankness, engaging his reader with honesty and a touch of humor. -Kirkus Reviews This book is a natural for the gender issues shelves. -Booklist Anyone who has ever contemplated, is just curious about, or finds him or herself in the midst of gender transformation will appreciate and applaud this extraordinary, comprehensive journal. Both informative and quite fascinating, Kailey delivers his life story with a compassionate eye and a true heart. --Jim Piechota, Bay Area Reporter

Not only a navigational aid for any woman contemplating gender change by one who's been there, but a heartfelt plea for mainstream American society to understand, accept and support gender diversity. Kailey was born a girl, but after 42 years of feeling out of place in a female body underwent gender reassignment. In his case, this meant chest surgery and testosterone injections, but not genital surgery. He reveals very little of his first four decades but is astonishingly open about the transition period and his present life as a self-styled gay transman. (The designation gay signifies that he is attracted to men since his sexual orientation remains the same as when he was a female, and the prefix trans indicates that he is not truly a man since he lacks male genitals.) Going bare-chested in public, having to change his car's tire without help for the first time, trying out a fake phallus, getting rebuffed in the Internet romance game, using a public men's room, going to a gynecologist for an annual Pap test, attending a conference with hundreds of other female-to-male transsexuals-Kailey describes all with frankness, and by engaging his reader with honesty and a touch of humor, he makes his life seem less alien than it might first appear to the straight world. In Kailey's ideal society, there's a place for every sexual persuasion-straight, gay, lesbian, transsexual and the intersexed-and the only way such a world can come about, he believes, is if people like himself speak up and show everyone who they are. If educating the public means sacrificing his privacy, Kailey seems willing to go far to get his message of tolerance out. An eye-opener, sometimes shocking but never smutty. (Kirkus Reviews)

Parts of Just Add Hormones dwell, wittily, on the author's own experiences . . . other chapters offer a cheeky insider's discussion of pesky pronouns, pants-packing, bathroom blues, and on-the-job jitters. But the real worth of Just Add Hormones stems from its thoughtful analysis-at times philosophical, at times political, and at times polemical-of a life-changing decision.--Richard Labonte, Q Syndicate <br><br> A heartfelt plea for mainstream American society to understand, accept and support gender diversity . . . Kailey describes all with frankness, engaging his reader with honesty and a touch of humor. <br> -Kirkus Reviews <br><br> This book is a natural for the gender issues shelves. <br> -Booklist <br><br> Anyone who has ever contemplated, is just curious about, or finds him or herself in the midst of gender transformation will appreciate and applaud this extraordinary, comprehensive journal. Both informative and quite fascinating, Kailey delivers his life story with a compassionate eye and a true heart. --Jim Piechota, Bay Area Reporter

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Matt Kailey is an author, journalist, public speaker, and female-to-male transsexual. A former social worker, he now writes and speaks on issues of gender and sexuality. Kailey lives in Denver, Colorado.

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