My Story

by Caroline "Tula" Cossey and Caroline Cossey

Book Overview

In 1989 Caroline Cossey, who was born male, made an appeal to the European Commission of Human Rights. She was fighting for the legal right to marry as a woman. The author tells of her childhood in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571162517
• ISBN13: 9780571162512
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

One of the first, fascinating and honest , a pleasure

Worth reading if you can find a copy, she was a trail blazer , going unapologetically in the honest direction of her impulses. Written in a very intimate way but not salacious at all.

I love this book

Caroline Cossey was a successful model and appeared in rock videos such as SOME LIKE IT HOT, RIO, and others. She was outed as a transsexual and her modelling career was damaged. This book is a great read of a woman who has survived and thrived despite childhood abuse and transphobia as an adult.

My Story a wonderful and insightful true story

Caroline has done nothing less than a superb job in telling of her story and the may hardships and adventures. Her ability to convey these events as they took place is a very heart warming tale of her journey through a very difficult situation that some of us must make in our lives. Her hardships are tempered with those of happy days where she had found many friends. Her vivid descriptions of the heataches is telling of the tribulations she has endured. Her loves and tragic losses are given in such a way that the reader feels her pain as well as her joys. She now lives in the U.S.A. somewhere near Atlanta. But her life has and continues to bring many of us warmth and hope through her books. This is one book that I have enjoyed reading and will always cherish my entire life. I only wish I had transitioned as early as her and had known this beautiful woman. Like so many I would love her to autograph the book.

My Story - such a wonderful story

I remember Caroline Cossey when I was very young and growing up in England - she was splashed all over the British Newpapers and I remember my parents going on about it. I took one glance at her and she became my inspiration. I am a transsexual successfully living as a woman these days and I've just read Caroline Cossey's first book "Tula - I am a Woman" and her follow up book "My Story". I was moved to heart wrenching tears. I guess I have a story - but hers is so special. I wish I could someday make contact with her somehow - she is still my inspiration and always will be. I hope life is bringing you the best - as you deserve Caroline. You ARE a woman. [hugs]

Another reader from Canada

I too,like the other reader from Canada would love to e-mail Caroline to tell her how grateful I am for her gripping life story. I too, have followed a similar path as her and was moved to tears when I read of her failed message. I originally purchased her first book, Tula: I am a Woman in the 1980's and was very familiar with her life, but "My Story" really brought home how difficult it is for us transexuals to live our lives and be accepted as human beings and not some kind of circus freaks. Thank you Tula for bringing home dignity to our cause. Thank you.