Goetsch also writes about her decision to transition relatively late in life. Now Goetsch has a new memoir called 'This Body I Wore,' about what it was like coming of age and into adulthood in an earlier era, when she didn't have the language or knowledge to understand what it meant to be trans. The blog was published on The American Scholar site. GROSS: That's my guest, Diana Goetsch, reading from her blog, Life In Transition, that she kept during her period transitioning to life as a woman. One other thing - I longed daily to be a woman. At the same time, I was depressed and had been for decades with no family, no partner, going through life alone. Previously, I'd been a concert jazz dancer, a restaurant cook, a varsity athlete. I seem to be a well-functioning man named Douglas Goetsch, a teacher who taught at Stuyvesant High School and various universities, a poet with award-winning collections, a dedicated meditation practitioner and instructor. In 2015, my guest wrote this.ĭIANA GOETSCH: (Reading) My life broke down two years ago at age 50, though it was broken all along.
