Head Over Heels : Wives Who Stay with Cross-dressers and Transsexuals

V. Erhardt

"Head Over Heels" gives voice to thirty ordinary women who live extraordinary lives as partners to crossdressers, transgenerists, and male-to-female transsexuals. These unique women discuss, with honesty and great candour, how they first learned of their partners' gender issues, how they have coped with the emotions that followed, how they have dealt with concerns about privacy/secrecy and how they have handled disclosure to children, friends and family members. Far from a collection of 'happily every after' stories, these narratives are filled with pain, courage, curiosity and joy as each women struggles to redefine a relationship that includes intimacy, social acceptance, dignity and respect.