Written by: Pagan Kennedy
First line: Michael Dillon, a bearded medical student,
fiddled with his pipe and then lit it nervously.
Why you should read this book: Over a decade before
Christine Jorgenson came out as the first person to use surgery and hormones to
change her expressed gender, Michael Dillon succeeded in becoming the man he’d
always wanted to be using testosterone and an unusual surgical technique
pioneered to help soldiers injured in World War I. Although Dillon was more or
less able to completely pass as a man for most of his adult life, and even
helped a male-to-female friend obtain surgery that was, at the time, illegal,
his brother, an English baron, suppressed the story long after his death. Here
is the history of a man determined to refine himself into a person of superlative
body and spirit, and the difficulties encountered in a life lived according to
his own principles, regardless of what others believed.
Why you shouldn’t read this book: You’ve ever told a family
member not to show their face around the old homestead ever again.
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