...she understood that she was "different" from an early age, that she knew at the age of three that she "had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl," but that she was determined to live life as a man until it became unbearable.67 She regards her participation...

...boys, and yet they do not feel like boys. The writer Jan Morris, born James Morris, was such a child. I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized...moment well, and it is the earliest memory of my life. Children like James Morris, children like "Joan" (the alias used for the opposite-sex identical twin...

...from Jan Morris's Conundrum is fairly typical in its epiphanic tone, although by no means definitive: 'I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized...well, and it is the earliest memory of my life.'" In this scene Morris is able to take a specific moment from her early life and interpret it as what...

...its own historicity. For example, Morris remarks at the beginning of her autobiographical narrative: "I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized...into the wrong body, and should really be a girl." And later: "I believe [the 'conundrum' of 'transsexualism'] to have some higher origin or meaning....

...since early childhood he had felt himself to be a woman trapped in a man's body: I was perhaps three or four years old when I realized that I had been born...moment well, and it is the earliest memory of my life. After living the life of a male transsexual until middle age, James emerged from a surgeon's clinic...

...but in one respect self-examination did obsess me. Since childhood I had been irrationally convinced that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a woman. Coping with this mystery, during the four years I spent in the British Army, and the ten in...

...self-conscious, moment in transsexual autobiography: "I was three or perhaps four years old," Morris recounts, "when I realized that I had been born into the wrong...moment well, and it is the earliest memory of my life" (9). As Morris grew, this ambivalent sexuality began to manifest itself in his romantic relationships:...

...JAN MORRIS [ was three or perhaps four years old vhen I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really >ea girl. I remember the moment well, •nd it is the earliest memory of my life. CONUNDRUM WITH A...

...she understood that she was "different" from an early age, that she knew at the age of three that she "had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl," but that she was determined to live life as a man until it became unbearable.6' She regards her participation...