{"id":11214,"date":"2019-05-17T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=11214"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:41:03","slug":"autumn-changes-part-one-by-red-jordan-arobateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/autumn-changes-part-one-by-red-jordan-arobateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Changes Part One by Red Jordan Arobateau"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the opening volume of RJA\u00a1\u00c7s life work, his Unofficial Semi-Autobiography; 1,600 pages long, which has been divided into 5 parts for publishing purposes in the underground RED JORDAN PRESS. Each volume is sold individually or the whole set together. This book in its original typewritten font, unspellchecked, is a collectors dream! AUTUMN CHANGES begins with 2 short introductory pieces. TALES OF TRANSMAN Parts 1 & 2, where we encounter the 5 year old Red in his family home on the South Side of Chicago. Scenes switch fast up to 1998, still female bodied, then jumps back to 1948, to depict more of Red\u00a1\u00c7s history as a boy\/girl; a mixed raced tomboy, that defines his childhood in the colored ghetto of Chicago\u00a1\u00c7s South Side. Glimpses of this early crossdresser (age 7), playing baseball outdoors in the alley with other boys, or inside with chemistry, and erector sets & refusing to play with dolls. Becoming aware of his sexuality later in teenage, by reading pulp novels such as Journey to a Woman, and Ann Bannon\u00a1\u00c7s Bebo Brinker series. In some instances AUTUMN CHANGES resembles the whole regular shebang of trans auto biographies — except this one is different—-Transman is an artist, a spiritual searcher, & a sexual libertine. Arobateau\u00a1\u00c7s style is to flash back & forth in his memories rather then a typical linear progression. A different date annotates the subsequent paragraph, and locates the reader immediate in time: \u00a1\u00c81972 Transman purchases a kingsized bed.–Visualizing many hot naked females in it. Does not realize it will be nearly 15 solid years of more aloneness interspersed by 4 or 5 aborted relationships and a dozen 20 minute hookers, until he meets his wife.\u00a1\u00c9 AUTUMN CHANGES is a bookfull of procedural information about FTM\u00a1\u00c7s & MTF\u00a1\u00c7s as well; something most trans books (fiction\/autobiographies) don\u00a1\u00c7t have. Usually being about either one or the other; although the majority of it is about the men: \u00a1\u00c8It\u00a1\u00c7s August 1998. 3 weeks away from top surgery. 2 months until his first hormone shot.\u00a1\u00c9 A picture of the guys assembled at a support group: \u00a1\u00c8One handsome stocky male–with a totally flat chest leads the group. A greater butch then the others, he observes. Jealously wells up in Transman. This is how he longs to look! Without hormone shots he never will.\u00a1\u00c9 This book\u00a1\u00c7s snapshots flash back and forth. Red Jordan Arobateau, teenager. Young adult in his 20\u00a1\u00c7s. And middle age. How change hurts his wife of 16 years–the lovely Jasmine: \u00a1\u00c8How do you really think I\u00a1\u00c7m going to react to this sex change? Says the wife at last, wearily…. \u00a1\u00c8I haven\u00a1\u00c7t thought about it really.\u00a1\u00c9 Confesses Transman. He\u00a1\u00c7s so tired.\u00a1\u00c9 It is the era of the transgender clinic. We see the Famous Tom Waddell facility in which we get a view of flamboyant colorful girls as well as the boys: \u00a1\u00c8At the time the doctors thought it would serve exclusively male to female sex workers who lived in the Tenderloin. Now it sees trannys coming from all over.\u00a1\u00c9 Arobateau packs so much information into this amazing book; medical, surgical procedures for both MTF\u00a1\u00c7s and FTM\u00a1\u00c7s; race, class, spirituality, & plots; huge amounts of dialogue which are often funny; confessions during support groups. He shows how important transition is to the true transsexual: \u00a1\u00c8It is of vital importance to be masculine. To uphold his manhood.–Even while still inside a girl body. Womanizing kinds of things tear down his\/her ego, and her maleness. The best intentioned shopclerks who recognize a woman under his mashed down cap, and address him politely as \u00a1\u00c6Mam\u00a1\u00c7 after scrutiny, doing their best to be polite; the large men who step aside and let him go through a door first–is it his age–or his perceived gender? It\u00a1\u00c7s too feminizing. He would go back to using drugs. Drink himself to death. Other men in the groups testify how close to suicide they were–and that transition was the only escape.\u00a1\u00c9 Through these random journal l<\/div>\n
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