<p><b>A captivating memoir of one woman¿s long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her.</b><br><br><b>¿[An] achingly beautiful memoir.¿ ¿</b><b>Manuel Betancourt, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br><b>¿A universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity.¿ ¿Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of </b><i><b>She¿s Not There</b></i><b> and </b><i><b>Good Boy</b></i><br><br>Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of <i>Time</i>, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn¿t even know they were trans. Diana Goetsch¿s <i>This Body I Wore</i> chronicles one woman¿s long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.<br><br>¿How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it?¿ This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question th