From Cabinet: http://www.cabinet.com/living/984378-308/doctor-signing-book-at-toadstool.html
By Michael Cleveland
Thursday, November 22, 2012
MILFORD – When Jessica Angelina Birch holds a signing for her first book at the Toadstool Bookshop on Saturday, Nov. 24, she will be instantly recognized by a number of people.
Jessica Angelina Birch is her pen name, but she’s known to her patients as Dr. Jennifer Madden, and she has been practicing medicine in Amherst under that name for five years.
But for a long time Jennifer was known as Henry, and that is what the book is about: A monumental change that allowed someone who always believed she was a woman to actually become one.
The book, “Confessions of a Transsexual Physician,” is her story, one she believes portrays a realistic view of the metamorphosis that took place in her.
“For good or for bad, I put it all out there for others to see, so they might better understand what I endured to find peace within myself.”
“There’s a message in the book,” Madden said during a recent telephone interview, “and a fair amount of sadness and trauma. But I think it’s upbeat. I survived the process. Hopefully, future generations won’t have to go through some of that.”
Madden didn’t make the decision to become a woman until she was 48 years old.
“I was afraid,” she said. “It wasn’t something that I was really willing to open up to people about. I was afraid of the consequences.”
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