BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE – A Boy Who Became A Girl (21/12/2024)

She says: ‘I was reared Catholic but got over it, was born male but got over it, stopped sleeping with boys about the time I stopped being one and am much happier than I was when I was younger’.

ROZ KAVENY is a poet, a novelist, a writer of science fiction, a reviewer, a cultural critic, a literary journalist and a celebrated activist.

She has also been a sex worker – a hustler – as she would say, and has been both celebrated and denigrated.

She was born a boy in 1949, became a woman all the way back in 1982 and has led a very countercultural life indeed.

This is part of her story. It’s a wild and at times shocking ride. It gives an insight into what it was like to come of age as trans in an era before even being gay was legalised in the UK.

Note: contains descriptions of sexual abuse.