Comments on Counterfeit Woman

Counterfeit Woman (CD/TV Novel): Sandra Ward - Sissy life, Sissy Wife series (The Counterfeit Series by Haydon Masts




I am sorry for some of the harsh words, Ms. Masts, but you had the unlucky fortune to find a sixty nine year old sapphic transwoman as a reader, who came out and started to transition in 1983.

I have worked in responsible positions in the entertaining industry during my transition and afterwards I used my experience with clueless psychiatrists and psychologists during my transition, to actually start investigating myself with the help of the world’s best astrologer and at the same time learn my inner truths about my life so far. When I left Germany in 1986 - disgusted by the farce the government called “Transexuellengesetz” - with my female partner to start a new life in the UK, I was already known for the quality of my counsellings and diagnoses of psychological problems of male to female trans persons, to be working as a travelling feelancer with established therapists in their groups, later even supervising established practitioners of psychology and medicine. So, yes, that is what still fuels my own books, that all have -no matter what genre I write – sapphic male to female trans heroines and cis woman, sapphic or bisexual, love interests.

What puzzles me, Ms. Masts, is the discrepancy between the original title image of the book and what you remark about the quality of the artist’s work you used for the original publication. It sounds like, at the time, you were striving for those qualities yourself. The development of Judy in the story is such a stark contrast … what happened?

I know that I will not make any friends with what I am going to voice here, but my life experience and some involuntary give aways in your writing have told me a lot of what possibly fuels people like Judy: a lack of love during childhood and a resulting lack of self esteem, rigorously repressed and replaced with wanton cruelty and an underlying envy of ‘how easy men have it’. That, I m sorry to say, is not a base to build a healthy life on, or to say it with the words of Crishnamurti “It is no sign of health to be perfectly adapted in a profoundly sick society.”

OK. so I faught down the urge to scrap my computer by thowing I out THROUGH the closed window and read this to the last word. Not an experience I will ever like to recall, so a no star rating, as I know a lot of people out there like this sort of crap and my professional pride prevents me from hurting another writers chances at making some money. This series, though, is more than dead for me.



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