Becoming a Visible Man.Becoming a Visible Man * Jamison Green Jamison "James" Green (born in 1948 in Oakland, California) is a leader in the transgender rights movement.Green is known as an activist for the legal protection, medical access, safety, civil rights and dignity of transgender and transsexual people. * Vanderbilt * $24.95 Well-known as a transgender transgender or transgendered adj. Transsexual. activist and educator, Jamison Green turns out to be an engaging writer as well; his memoir reflects the same calming energy that has made him so effective as a spokesman on transgender issues. Green covers a childhood in which strangers saw him as a boy even when he wore a dress; an adolescence spent struggling to decipher his awakening desire for girls; adulthood as a lesbian in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ; and the determination to undergo sex-reassignment surgery that crystallized crys·tal·lize also crys·tal·ize v. crys·tal·lized also crys·tal·ized, crys·tal·liz·ing also crys·tal·iz·ing, crys·tal·liz·es also crys·tal·iz·es v.tr. 1. when, despite his then-female body, his baby daughter called him "daddy." |
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