The Body Lies
A REPORTER AT LARGE about female-to-male (F.T.M.) transsexuals. Two people in 100,000 are diagnosed as high-intensity transsexuals, requiring surgery. …
"What would you go through not to have to live Gregor Samsa's life? Not to realize, early in childhood, that other people perceive a slight, unmistakable bugginess about you?" — Bloom's Kafkaesque opening to her piece on transsexuality.