This Body I Wore: A Memoir

This captivating memoir, "This Body I Wore," chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out as transgender, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.

Through her childhood, time as a beloved teacher at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 1980s and '90s, Goetsch brings us into her world with power and complexity of lived reality.

This is not a transition memoir, but rather a full account of a trans life, one both unusually public and closeted.

With achingly beautiful prose, Goetsch addresses the question often asked of trans people: How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? This is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of gender identity and the resilience of the human spirit.