My Daughter, My Son: An Adolscent's Gender Transition Experienced by Mother & Child (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780989208611)

Luca is a post-op transsexual man residing in Oregon with his wife of nine years. His poetry and a pencil sketch were published in Dean Kotula's book The Phallus Palace (Alyson Publications, 2002.) He was a panelist alongside Diane Ellaborn for a presentation about trans youth at a transgender convention in Boston, Massachusetts in 1998. In 2002 he participated in a sex change surgery results workshop at the True Spirit FTM convention in Washington, D.C. Luca was a panelist at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, on gender identity disorders and female to male transsexualism in 2005. He's been interviewed by college students majoring in Women's Studies, Social Work and Child Development from Oregon State University, Portland, Oregon and Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, Massachusetts. Luca is gratified to be a member of PFLAG and a supporter of TransActive. Betsie is the proud mother of a trans son. Her greatest joy in life is being a mother and mother-in-law. Leaving the North Shore of Massachusetts for the sunshine of Arizona, Betsie currently resides there with her husband and two cats. She is delighted to be a member of PFLAG and the East Valley Meet-Up Writing Group. Betsie was a contributor to Dean Kotula's book The Phallus Palace (Alyson Publications, 2002) while Luca was still pre-op.