AUTHOR PROFILE
Charles Anders is from the USA. He has cross dressed for many years and has written transgender acrticles and fiction for 'The New York Press', 'Sanfrancisco Bay Guardian, Scarlet Leters Neverworlds and others. He won first prize for weekly newspaper feature from the california newspaper publishers association
He Is a cross-dresser and judging by the effort made to write and pubish this book he not too lazy at that. In his introduction he thanks his parents for more acceptance and support than he might have expected. He also thanks many from the transgender community for encouraging him and helping him to write this book.
BOOK CONTENTS
From the title you might expect one page inside that says
1 - Go to the local thrift store
2 - shut your eyes and grab something and run (hopefully meant for a female)
3 - dress up and flop on the sofa with your favourite beer
And in a way it is. If thats what you want. It is clear Charles obviously knows what it is to struggle out of the closet despite a sterotypical male upbringing, hampered by a strongly male phyiche and not a whole lot of experience about how to create a good female image, (much like a most of us transvestites). I say this because he has obviously started from this point and researched ways of achieving the best result possible. Charles describes himself looking like Henry Kissinger in a frock but the tiny picture of him on the back cover betrays the fab image that he can create from such devastatingly poor material. Reading inbetween the lines of this very funny and feau jaded writing style yo could learn to achieve what Charles has achieved.
Tthere is so much more to this book and as you read more, Charles proves to be far from lazy and in fact a very industrious, and very intelligent transvetite who has an answer for every aspect of cross-dressing. He gives very clear advice on how to do it - to a level thet suits yourself. He has ways to create a good image - if you can be bothered. An all encompassing beauty section - for those that can be bothered to shave. He prepareyo for going out - if theres nothing on the telly. The advice to the question: Will people laugh at me ? is: Yes and after three more sentances suggests you might get seriously hurt. But like a mother to a daughter, he then gives good practical advise to avoid this worst case scenario. Advice like "dont get lost in the illusion get lost in the reallity".
The beauty advice is as good as you can get
How to handle dating and relationships and concludes with a USA resource guide.
A lot of what is written can be better understood after reading the many the reafirming quotes from other crossdressers that is set along the main text.
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SUMMARY
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