Transition Companion Book

Transition Companion Book

Melanie's Complete Transgender Writings

By Melanie Anne
founder of the Transgender Support Site

The Transition Companion - 189 Page Book $19.95

This outstanding collection of writings covers all aspects of the transgender experience, ranging  from practical information on developing a female voice, hormones, and Surgery to methods for determining if one is transsexual, essays on dealing with friends & family, the causes of transsexualism, a test for transsexualism, and answers to the transgender questions Melanie has been asked over the last ten years.

Topics include...

Practical Information

  • How to Develop a Female Voice
  • How To Develop a Female Voice (Additional Information)
  • HORMONES
  • Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS): The Nuts and Bolts
  • What is Actually Done?
  • The Long and the Short of it
  • Post Op Information
  • Requirements for Surgery

Dealing With Friends, Family, Lovers, & Mates

  • Dealing with a Non-Understanding Wife
  • What Wives Can Expect…
  • How NOT to Apologize to a Woman
  • Dealing with an Abusive Mate
  • Disclosure
  • Playing to the Crowd
  • The Four Kinds of Love
  • Using a Female On-line Name

Transsexuality - What it Is; How to Tell if One Is Transsexual

  • Human Sexuality 101
  • Where Mental Sex Came From....
  • Men Are From Mars; Women Are From Next Tuesday
  • What’s YOUR Mental Sex?
  • "Doping" the Brain
  • B.S. and the Sexes
  • Female and Male Views of Justification
  • Female Perspectives in Problem Solving
  • Blind Sided!
  • How to Tell if You Are Transsexual
  • Dealing with Conflicting Masculine/Feminine Feelings
  • Reply to a letter from a transitional human being:
  • Changing Feelings of Gender Identity

Questions & Answers

  • How Long Before Hormones Cause Changes in Body and Mind?
  • What About Aldactone for Reducing Body Hair?
  • Do Home Electrolysis Units Work?
  • The Biber Button
  • Have Hormones Changed the Way You Feel?
  • What About Your Wife?
  • Is Being Post-Op All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
  • How Would a less successful "after" career change your experience?
  • Do you consider yourself a transsexual still, or do you consider yourself a woman?
  • What are Your Measurements?
  • What Does Your Wife Do for Intimacy?
  • Do You Need Future Surgeries?
  • Will You Describe Tips for Sex as a Woman?
  • Questions About Your Relationship With Your Wife
  • How Do Your Children Relate To You?
  • Would Your Own Writings Have Helped You In Your Journey?
  • We Need to Reach the Bigots
  • Identify Yourself as a Transsexual!
  • Do You Still Get Asked to be a Leader?
  • Is It Easy to Find an Accepting Guy?
  • What Are the Dangers of Using Birth Control Pills?
  • Words of Praise
  • I’d Like to Correspond With You
  • Why Don’t You Link Your Gender Writings to Your Personal Home Page?
  • How goes the screenplay writing?
  • How do you tell, from the replies to your personals ads, who is cool?
  • Are you nervous, meeting someone, you’ve never met nor seen?
  • How long have you been playing piano?
  • Consciousness is one of the great science mysteries. What have you discovered?
  • I would’ve thought you do not get PMS because isn’t that related to periods?
  • What bust size were you and what size are you now?
  • Do you keep photos of David?
  • Dramatica sounds neat! Did you use any AI, or is it all database-driven?
  • Is there mentally any trace of your masculinity?
  • Do you feel like a real woman psychologically as well?
  • By the way, what do you like to do on your free time?
  • Where do you live?
  • What’s your occupation?
  • What if someone has a big ugly face and nose?
  • Questions Regarding Mental Relativity…
  • I Have Lots of Questions!
  • Does the taking of estrogen really change one’s thinking?
  • Do you experience sex in very different ways?
  • When you wake up in the morning…
  • Do you see the way in which people interact with each other in different ways?
  • How Do You Socially Interact with Women Now?
  • Are You Happier Now Than You Were Before?

Melanie’s Editorials from Her Transgender Webzine, The Subversive

  • Statement of Intent from the First Issue
  • Tradeoffs
  • Remembering to Forget
  • A Season of Hope
  • A New Beginning
  • Homesteading
  • Growth vs. Change
  • Identity Vs. Censorship
  • Opening A Can Of Worms
  • Excuses, Excuses!
  • Cinderella Liberties
  • Updates of Melanie’s Activities at the Time
  • Skeletons In The Closet You Came Out Of
  • More Updates of Melanie’s Activities
  • What Comes After
  • Feet of Clay
  • Relationships 101
  • Class Act
  • Rewriting the Past
  • O.J.’s Last Run
  • Melanie’s Night Out
  • Dramatica is Loose!
  • Sexism in the Movies
  • Winding Up, Winding Down
  • Giving Up the Melanie Icon
  • Destination

Excerpt from Melanie’s Transition Diary - Surgery Day

Infamous Last Words

  • A Chat with Melanie On the Microsoft Network