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To Be Seen: A Detransition Story

To Be Seen: A Detransition Story

Smith, Forrest

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Biographies GeneralGLBTQIA Studies

Publisher Price: $19.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 4, 2027

ISBN10: 163431302X
ISBN13: 9781634313025
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing
Published: May 4 2027
Pages: 232
Language: English
For five years, Forrest was Ramona.

With the support of social services and medical professionals, he reinvented himself as a woman. He changed his name and pronouns, took feminizing hormones, and underwent irreversible surgeries. Then he detransitioned.

In To Be Seen, Forrest Smith traces the making--and unmaking--of an identity, from childhood secrets and adolescent rebellion to an unexpected encounter with grace. Refusing the easy certainties of polemics, he offers a personal account of his experience with the clarity of hindsight.

Written in spare, vivid prose, To Be Seen layers memory, medical records, and personal writings to illuminate the contradictions of desire and the dangers of self-deception. At once documentary and confessional, To Be Seen bears witness to the body's simple truth--and the power of reconciliation.

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