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<p><b>A captivating memoir of one woman’s long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her.</b><br><br><b>“[An] achingly beautiful memoir.” —</b><b>Manuel Betancourt, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br><b>“A universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity.” —Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of </b><i>She’s Not There</i><b> and </b><i>Good Boy</i><br><br>Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of <i>Time</i>, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn’t even know they were trans. Diana Goetsch’s <i>This Body I Wore</i> chronicles one woman’s long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.<br><br>“How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it?” This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question that Goetsch, an award-winning poet and essayist, addresses with the power and complexity of lived reality. She brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City’s Stuyvesant Hi

Author

Goetsch Diana (author)

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374722326

Rating

4.6 / 5 (107 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14