Well worth reading

On the Road-Again, Part Four by Karin Bishop

My rating:
my rating:4.5 of 5 stars

This is by far the best and most realistic of the four books in every respect, so here’s my reason for withholding half a star:

I was born a boy and started transitioning in 1983, so I’ve been on female Hormones for more or less forty years and guess what, I’m still sexually into females, which isn’t all that astonishing according to a recent worldwide Survey. Of all the people who said they identify as in the trans section of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, only 19% say they turned out heterosexual in the physical gender they aspired to achieve. That’s hardly a fifth and puts very much into doubt all those stories, in which a male to female trans person always turns out being into men. The question is WHY?

That’s half the reason. Here’s the other half:

In this volume Suzie Fairchild acquires an astonishing amount of business sense as well as quite some maturity as an assertive, yet sensitive and loving woman. She is going far beyond best female friends with Halla and so does she. Having received and accepted the apartment from her – if I had been the editor - I’d suggested to Karin, since there is already the warning from Monica, that Suzie tells Halla about Destiny Suzanne Weston, the jazz singer and her alter egoand her plans, offers her to start a production company together with her and to move in together, to see where that might lead As neither Suzie nor Destiny are well and truly sure of their sexual orientation, because of the missing teenage puberty as a girl.

Another point of discontent is the fact, that Destiny is so intensely decided to erase Suzie completely from her past. That certainly is not a healthy obsession. Suzie Fairchild is a very important part of her development into a woman. As the clever business woman she has become the solution I suggest would be to sell all Suzie’s rights and intellectual property to Destiny and Halla’s production company. That way it would be no problem to go to book signings or publishing Suzie’s photo’s and/or books and not really establish anything but a completely professional acquisition and in no way indicate any physical identity between Suzie Fairchild (who could vanish as a person nevertheless) and Destiny Suzanne Weston, whose new Stepfather has already pretty much erased any traces of Stuart from all records. That then would have still left two developments open to exploration:

1) Destiny and Halla develop their relationship further than just a professional partnership, which could also free Halla from her families’ clutches, or

2) a deep friendship between a lesbian Halla and a heterosexual Destiny, who goes on to explore her sexuality and finds out, why she always falls for men, who give her reasons to think the relationship cannot go anywhere anyway, what might point in the direction of counselling. Then she might be able to own her past as Stuart and still play around with her sexual orientation. In my opinion trying to erase an important part of your development in real life can only lead to regret, unhappiness and psychological problems, depression, even.

Other than that I think volume four is by far the best book of this series and well worth reading.





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