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Just Add Hormones, by Matt Kailey (2005) is an autobiography of Kailey’s experience through becoming a transman. He talks about his experience as a heterosexual women, and changes after becoming a male. To me I am so interested in how everyday life can be so different just because of the genitalia you have. I could easily relate to every male experience, but I could not wrap my head around the idea of having to know the closest place to run for sanctuary at all times. When I read some things I was just amazed at what I was so blind to. I found that the most significant aspect of this reading is how gender polarized society is. Even Kailey (2005) shares,
I had bought into all these externally imposed expectations… we retrain ourselves to sit,

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