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The Husband Who Became A Woman

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For 40 years, Jenny Finney Boylan was known to everyone as James. James was a husband and a father, a popular professor and a successful novelist. But James was hiding a shocking secret—he knew he was a woman inside a man's body.

A Life in Two Genders
James Boylan had a sex change operation
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After years of struggling to be something he was not, James chose to become Jenny—mind, body and spirit—a difficult decision that changed everything.

From "James" to "Jenny"
Jenny (once James) feels complete as a woman. Transgendered—it's a word many of us have never heard. Jenny Boylan explains what it means to her and the process she went through to become a woman.

More Husbands Who Became Women
More husbands who became women. Jenny is not alone in her search for identity. Meet more husbands who decided to become women and see how their choices have affected their families.

Related Book
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan will be in bookstores in July, 2003.

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