Both Sides Now: One Man's Journey Through Womanhood

by Dhillon Khosla

Book Overview

A man who underwent gender reassignment recounts his painful early efforts to accept the female body he was born with, his experiences with living as both a woman and a man, and his discovery about... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585424722
• ISBN13: 9781585424726
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: TarcherPerigee
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

a true inspiration

This book changed my life...I mean really. The writter struggled with the very same things I did...that is until I read his book! After reading it I aquired the same courage that he did and solved the same problem. I only wish that books and other information such as this had been made avalible sooner. I found it hard to put down. I laughed and cried along the way. I would recomend this book to anyone struggeling with similar innertermiol and you will no longer feel alone!

A fantastic, emotional, page-turning read.

READ THIS BOOK! You don't have to be a transsexual, homosexual, male, or female to get a lot out of this book. I'm a married heterosexual female and read this book with an open mind, and am so glad I did so. Kholsa's transition from a female body to a male one that matched his male brain offers insights on the societal and biological constructs of gender and how our bodies are hard-wired to think and behave in certain ways by our hormones, our sociology, and so many other things. The fact that Kholsa has experienced both sides can help you learn more about yourself and the opposite sex than you ever thought possible. Written in gorgeous, dramatic prose that will keep you turning pages well into the wee hours. Fantastic! A great choice for your book club, too---sure to inspire hours of lively discussion.

One great read

This is much more than a story about a man born in a woman's body who then went through life threatening surgery and alot of sole searching to become the person he is today. It is also a study in determination and perserverance. I saw Dhillon Khosla on the View and immediately bought his book. I could not believe that he was born a woman. When I received his book I read it through in one night (something new for me) because I had to know the whole story. While this book will interest those who feel they too are trapped in the wrong body,it is also the story of an incredible journey full of sandtraps and brick walls. The intimate story is told with intellectual honesty and is an excellent read.

Dhillon's Simple Twist of Fate

"Both Sides Now: One Man's Journey Through Womanhood" by Dhillon Khosla takes you along with him on a journey no mere mortal could imagine. But this is not some science fiction fantasy novel, no, this is in fact a very personal memoir. Thanks to a simple twist of fate, Mr. Khosla was assigned at birth a body by Kafka. His clarity and his intelligence and his perseverance helped him survive and overcome difficult odds.For his relatively rare birth defect, (about one in ten thousand children are born this way) there are no telethons and the cure is expensive. Mr. Khosla had to jump through many hoops to get where he is today- a successful lawyer and talented musician- and the obstacles he faced and conquered in this epic journey were often fore-shadowed in his dreamlife. The book is smartly laid out- it includes seventeen black and white photographs and twenty-eight of the twenty-nine chapters cover a specific month in his life with the last chapter a jump cut to the present. Each chapter begins with a short but telling entry from his dream journal, and throughout the book the high caliber of his writing keeps you right there beside him. I rushed home from work each day until I finished this book and thought of little else in the interim. A fantastic story, all the more remarkable for having been lived, one can only hope he tries his hand at novel writing next. He is a relatively young man so one hopes he will write another memoir someday having lived through more adventures, but he has already lived what one could call a crowded hour so his autobiography is by no means premature. One hopes if there is another installment that the next one will turn out to be a love story.

Moving on Every Level

This is the first book that has profoundly moved me in so many ways. It has inspired me beyond what I thought a book ever could.