@Jyoti It was this very book that first put the notion in my head that transition was, at least theoretically, possible. The year was 1998, and I was 22 and working in an "adult retail" establishment that was decidedly queer friendly and ran across this book on one of the shelves. I had always been masc-identified but never really considered That a possibility, and then upon a quick flip-through I got to the chapter on trans men and some little voice in my head said "Oh, hey, that's A Thing! A Thing we want!" FFWD 8 years (and a few Discovery Channel documentaries) later, and it became A Thing I did. Even though I never actually read more than a few words, this book literally changed my life.

@Dr_Tranny @Jyoti That sounds so much better than how I learned: finding one of Dr Stoller's late 1960s books in my university library in 1994. At least it meant I found the story of Agnes Torres.