The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and other festivals refuse admittance to their events by transgendered lesbians. Several months ago, I was reading "The Lesbian Connection" and saw many letters in the "Letters to the Editor" section which denounced transgendered lesbians. And how many of us would be open to dating a transgendered lesbian? For myself, I don't know if I would or not. I guess that it would depend on the lady. I know a truly beautiful transgendered lesbian who has lost several girlfriends when she told them about her secret, even though she has a vagina now.

So it was with great interest that I finally purchased a copy of "Trans-Sister Radio" by Chris Bohjalian a few weeks ago in a Burlington, Vermont bookstore. The author of such novels as "The Law of Similars" and "Midwives", Chris lives with his wife and daughter in Vermont. "Trans-Sister Radio" was released in May of 2000 by Harmony Books (a division of Random House) and I had been considering reading it for months. The dust jacket on the book said that it was the story of a woman named Allison Banks who falls in love with someone who is to have a sex change operation. I'll admit that I was curious as to how well a straight, white male author could pull off such a novel. Until the last few pages, he does it quite well.

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