For most of us, our gender is something we rarely question. From our first moments of life, when the doctor says "it's a girl" or "it's a boy," our gender shapes how we see the world, whom we interact with and how, the choices we make in appearance and romance and career and friends. And for most of us, this isn't a problem. But what happens when the world tells you, from your earliest memory, that you're a boy...and you know the world is wrong? "trans/formation: a life on both sides of the gender divide" is part autobiography, part essay collection. Written with unflinching honesty and humor, trans/formation is an incisive look at one woman's experiences growing up transgender in a society that often condemns, judges and attacks those who are different.