TY - BOOK AU - Mewburn, Kyle, TI - Faking it: my life in transition SN - 9780143775188 AV - RC423 .M53 2021 U1 - 306.768 MEW 23 PY - 2021///. CY - Auckland : PB - Penguin Books, KW - Mewburn, Kyle. KW - Transgender women KW - Biography KW - Authors, New Zealand KW - Autobiography KW - Autobiographies N2 - "Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her own person -a celebrated children's book author, a husband and, finally, a woman. She shares the dreams, the prejudice and the agony of growing up trans and coming out, the lengthy physical ordeal of facial feminisation surgery, and her experiences as a woman - good, bad and creepy"--Publisher information ER -