I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante

Happy Mother's Day. This is a memoir of transitioning, written by a writer and university professor by trade, about her "egg breaking", being unable to continue to live as a man and coming out as a woman at age 60 and what the experience was like for her. This is the second such book I have read--written by another author and university professor, Jenny Boylan about her experience, and these are so valuable to me as a mental health provider who has a substantial patient population of people who have done just this. The struggles within one's self--not with questioning their essential femaleness but rather holding it in for so long, then letting it go free, who to tell, how to tell them, and who might get hurt--both this author and Professor Boylan had significant others they did not want to lose, and in one case, kids as well. I have a limited imagination, and so these frank renditions of what happened and how it felt are valuable--and also very likely frightening to release into the world, so thank you for that.