Candid, first-hand debts of who remain jointly regardless of hugely emotional gender issues.

Head Over Heels provides voice to thirty usual ladies who stay striking lives as companions to crossdressers, transgenderists, and male-to-female transsexuals. those special ladies talk about, with honesty and nice candor, how they first discovered in their companions’ gender matters, how they’ve coped with the sentiments that undefined, how they’ve handled matters approximately privacy/secrecy, and the way they’ve dealt with disclosure to little ones, associates, and kinfolk. faraway from a set of “happily ever after” tales, those narratives are packed with discomfort, braveness, interest, and pleasure as each one girl struggles to redefine a dating that comes with intimacy, social attractiveness, dignity, and respect.

The girls whose tales are featured in Head Over Heels did not recognize their companions have been gender-variant after they first met. a few discovered early on; others discovered in their husbands' gender variance after a long time of marriage. a few have been advised through their husbands—men they thought of “regular guys;” others discovered on their lonesome, occasionally in surprising methods. Their tales signify a large spectrum of women's existence reviews with crossdressers, transgenderists, transsexuals who're nonoperative, pre-operative, and post-operative, households with out young children, households with childrens at domestic, and households with teenagers who've left domestic. yet those girls proportion something in universal: each one has determined to stick in her dating, exploring her new lifestyles with an open, but wary, heart.

Some of the voices heard in Head Over Heels:

• “While placing my outfits on, i discovered a revenues receipt at the bureau from K-Mart for footwear, a bra, and stockings. My fast inspiration was once that my husband had a girlfriend.”


• “He dressed for me one evening and it was once the worst adventure of either our lives. i used to be stunned and he knew it and that harm him.”


• “My siblings have been conscious of Trish’s transsexualism for numerous years whilst she went full-time. they've got advised me that whereas i'll continuously be welcome of their houses, Trish is not.”


• “My husband might imagine in a different way, yet I do have a sexual identification. really, I’m genuine transparent approximately it—I am a lady and he's a guy. i don't let him to crossdress within the bed room. I married a guy; for this reason, i'll sleep with a man.”

Head Over Heels additionally comprises old and present information regarding assets and aid for better halves of gender-variant humans, and a noticeable advent that comes with simple information regarding sexual and gender id and similar issues.