Tiptoeing through the Tulips at Seventy: A Memoir
type: CreativeWork
description: 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 and, 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.
abstract: 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 and, 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.
author: Miele, Fran
keywords: autogynephilia, gender dysphoria, gender identity, male-to-female transition, self bondage, sexual masochism disorder, Creative Writing
date published: 2022-12-05T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:43:58Z
provider: Kennesaw State University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Kennesaw State University