My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection

By Julia Kaye

My Life in Transition is a story that’s not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia's life as an out trans woman—about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria and misgendering, learning to lean on friends in times of need, and finding peace in the fact that life keeps moving forward.

After the nerve-wracking, anxiety-ridden early transition period has ended and the hormones have done their thing, this book shows how you can be trans and simply exist in society. You can be trans and have a successful future. You can be trans and have a normal life full of ups and downs. In our current political and social climate, this hopeful, accessible narrative about trans lives is both entertaining and vital.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Feb 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781524870140

Book preview

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three years in

I woke up one morning to realize my life had changed.

Somehow, after the seemingly endless turmoil of anxieties and exhaustion I had endured early on in my transition, it seemed time had kept on moving forward. Nearly three years had passed since I’d started on the path toward living a more authentic life; I’d been out and living as a queer woman in society all that time.

As I started consciously taking in what my life had become, I began to realize just how much more at ease I felt on the whole. When I looked in the mirror, I saw a drastically more feminine person looking back (and on good days I even thought she looked cute!), and when I left the house, I wasn’t so stressed about the way strangers interpreted my gender expression. I had reached a point where everyone in my life only knew me as Julia and referred to me by my pronouns (she/her) without fail—heck, even strangers in public gendered me correctly more often than not. I had also found friendship within the transgender community with wonderful people who could relate about the nuances of our experiences. All of this led to my feeling a confidence about myself and what I was capable of that I hadn’t previously known possible.

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Reviews for My Life in Transition

[villemezbrown · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A nice follow-up visit with a fascinating and charming woman. I hope a third book will be forthcoming.