Tiptoeing through the Tulips at Seventy: A Memoir

<p>This is a memoir about my lifetime search for clarity about my gender identity. My primary goal for the project was to catalog the steps I took in the sometimes-tortured and confusing path I followed over the course of my life, from childhood to late adulthood, striving to understand who and what I am in terms of my identity and how, once it was clarified in my mind, coming to terms with it <em>and</em>, at the ripe old age of seventy, taking the steps necessary to affirm it by way of the male-to-female transition. A secondary, incidental goal was to develop a roadmap for individuals who are beset with a similar predicament and, most important, demonstrate that it’s never too late to have a fulfilled life.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW)

Level thesis:degree_level

Capstone

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2022

Author dc:creator

• Miele, Fran

Contributors dc:contributor

• Garrard Conley
• Erin Bahl

• autogynephilia
• gender dysphoria
• gender identity
• male-to-female transition
• self bondage
• sexual masochism disorder
• Creative Writing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mapw_etd/122

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:mapw_etd-1129