Product Description: Wrapped In Blue is Donna Rose's deeply personal memoir of self-discovery. The emotional story of her courageous and difficult journey across the gender line challenges the reader to consider life, love and gender in a new and insightful way. In the process, it provides a unique, intriguing, and sometimes humorous perspective on the differences between men and women.
Wrapped in Blue: A journey of Discovery I am a transgender as well, but I am a bit different because I am intersex. Reading Donna's story was like reading my own life story, there are so many of us going through transition. She really inspired me on how she pushed her way into womanhood. Donna is a friend now as I try to email as often as I can. If you are out there and are in between transitioning, read Wrapped in Blue and it will give you light.
Shauna
Donna's Review Content is excellent. Too bad more of us couldn't be more expressive. The only real downside is that she and/or the publisher couldn't have been bothered proofreading the manuscript (for both grammar and spelling, primarily the former) for missed and duplicative words.
Amazing! This is one of those books that you simply don't want to put down! Especially if you are having the same struggles as the people in the book.
A Hearts Desire Fulfilled I learned a very great deal from the book, by Donna Rose, titled "Wrapped In Blue." Being as I am TG myself I realized that there are others who suffer this same affliction besides myself. But most of all, the most important lessen of all that I learned from Donna Rose's book was that I could stop my self hatred, (to a very large degree), and finally understand that this is the way that I was. I no longer feel like a deviate sex pervert, or possessed by the devil, and I no longer feel genetically defective. Donna Rose's book gave to me a kind of healing and I finally feel okay with my self. This book had a big and beneficial effect on my life. I highly recommend this book for reading by anyone who wants to increase their understanding of the TG condition, whether they are TG themselves or not. Yours sincerely, Scot Crawford, (Beeble-bee).
A Moving and Honest Story For any persons who have wondered about making the journey from manhood to womanhood, this is a "must" read. It is also a most scary and tension-filled adventure as we follow Dave from his life as a world class athlete, a husband and father and a successful professional into being Donna, a most attractive and lovely professional woman.
I found myself engrossed in this book from the first chapter, and read its 361 pages in two sittings. This is a story of her early life of deception trying to hide at first her crossdressing and later her desires to become female from parents, brothers and sisters, friends and later wives and children.
Dave/Donna is an intelligent, caring, loving father who juggles natural feelings of femininity and the needs to live as a woman. She learns with disastrous results that whether she is "up front" and honest about her situation or is "found out" that she chances the loss of everything she had gained in the first 40 years of life: family, job and many friends.
She tries strategies to do everything "right" at the workplace as she takes the steps to womanhood; yet, each step is filled with fears and tensions as she becomes an object of co-worker gawking and corporate coldness to her situation. Her relationship with her wife of 16 years (a woman she loved unconditionally) is particularly heart-rending.
Once Donna has come out to her family, friends and employer, much of the tension of the book is lessened. She fully describes the difficult and painful surgeries involving facial reconstruction, breast enhancement and sexual reassignment, and these have their own tensions, but nothing like the fears and terrors she felt in dealing with the social aspect of transitioning.
Let's commend Ms. Rose for honestly and openly telling of her struggles and triumphs in transitioning. Not many persons could have been as brave and persistent as she was in discovering her true self.
The book also is a step-by-step summary of the transition process. Those interested in transitioning will learn just exactly all of the tremendous challenges they would face in deciding whether it's worth it.
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