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I was surprised when I first learned that [Helen Boyd] might be reviewing my life story for Tapestry, the reason being simply that she's not part of my intended audience. In [Alice-Alice] in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes of Age, I've aimed to take transgender autobiography to new heights of honesty and excitement. I'm a bisexual crossdresser who has held his head high and ended up leading a charmed life. I've sought to share this with fellow t-folks to give you all a sense of hope, pride, and adventure, but more than anything else, to let you know that whatever you've done, whatever you've feared, whatever you've felt that didn't fit in with the rest of who you're supposed to be . . . I'm right there with you, and it's okay.
[Richard J. Novic], psychiatrist and crossdresser, lives a double life: one for him, as a doctor and husband; and one for her, as girlfriend and party girl. It's the kind of life that some crossdressers dream of, a fantasy, a big, deep wish. But for Alice, it's reality. Most of this modern memoir by a crossdresser focuses on Alice's personal journey in negotiating a crossdresser's life: from a repressed CD and manly man, who becomes a closet CD, who evolves into an out CD, and who, in the end, achieves a life that envious people might see as having her cake and eating it too. Richard is a successful psychiatrist, respected in his field and by his peers, with a home, a wife, and children who love him. His femme personality, Alice, has a steady boyfriend, an extensive wardrobe, and a life-a life lived primarily at night-but a life nonetheless. This reviewer might have thought it was a Fictionmania story parading as a memoir if every development in Novic's life weren't so well-documented in Alice in Genderland.See the full content of this document
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Alice in Genderland
Alice in Genderland
Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes of Age Richard J. Novic, M.D. (iUniverse, Inc.: April 2005, pp.294). ISBN: 0595315623.Reviewed by Helen Boyd, author of My Husband BettyIn Alice in Wonderland, one bite makes you bigger, another bite makes you smaller. But in Alice in Genderland, Alice doesn't change size-s/he changes genders.Richard J. Novic, psychiatrist and crossdresser, lives a double life...See the full content of this document
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