Lannie Rose

Lannie Rose is a regular guy - who wants desperately to become a woman. A man by day at work, Lannie adopts a female persona after hours, but still feels unfulfilled. At last, Lannie decides to make a major change in his life and undergo SRS, a life-changing event in more ways than one. From his unusual childhood to her present life as a woman, Lannie Rose writes frankly about the social conflicts she faces, as well as the physical problems presented by the surgery itself...and the challenge of finding size 13 strappy sandals. Triumphant, poignant, shocking and extremely informative, Lannie! is above all else a woman's story of her faith in herself.

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"I'm just so grateful we're friends and so thrilled for the courage and success of your book, Lannie. Provocative, amusing, challenging, and so helpful to so many. Thanks, dear friend, for being so much a part of making this a more heavenly world."
- Reverend John Considine of the Unity Church of North Idaho

"In LANNIE! My Journey from Man to Woman, Lannie Rose offers us a look at the sometimes perplexing and often daunting intricacies of the life of a transgender woman. Ms. Rose captures the reader's attention through her tale of self-discovery in this humorous and challenging journey from boyhood to womanhood."
- California State Assemblyman Mark Leno

"Lannie is stunningly honest and genuinely refreshing in her outlook on life. Her brisk conversational style, sometimes comic, sometimes blunt, and sometimes poignant, opens a window overlooking the male-to-female transition and pulls our gaze forward as we learn to see with her eyes the wonder and excitement of becoming one's self."
- Jamison Green, author of Becoming a Visible Man

"Soulful and sparkling! Lannie Rose shares her remarkable story with us like it's a bottle of fine champagne. It tickles your throat and educates your palette while ultimately changing your view of the world and the people around you."
- Richard J. Novic, M.D., author of Alice in Genderland

"LANNIE! captures both the joys and challenges of the transgender woman's experience. At the same time, it offers a much deeper education about transsexualism than I've seen in other trans memoirs. I would recommend this book not only to my transgender clients, but to my friends as well, because it is a fascinating and funny read."
- Judy Van Maasdam, Coordinator, Gender Dysphoria Program, Inc.

"LANNIE! is quite candid and addresses a good range of issues. It is honest (perhaps unwittingly) in a way that exposes many of the vulnerabilities of being transsexual. In addition, its humor, along with an underlying compassion, enables the reader to glimpse what it truly might be like to be a trannie such as Lannie."
- Holly Boswell, transgender author and educator

"I just finished LANNIE! I loved it. I felt like I was reading an engrossing letter from my sister (except neither of my sisters likes to write much). I could hardly put it down. Damn, girl, you sure can write! ... your books got me thinking more about the ways in which I fail to land squarely in so many of society's boxes. Highly enlightening."
- Doug Brown, a reader

"Ms. Rose's transformation from Eddy to Lannie is a story about shedding blinders and facing your deepest desires. Her engaging account reminds us all that we live, love, and laugh to the fullest when we're being true to ourselves."
- Alice Novic, author of Alice in Genderland

"The 42 chapters in Rose's memoir are short and concise, but hardly limited on content or emotion about her male-to-female transsexual journey. She begins with an insider's look at the graphic procedure for sex reassignment surgery (SRS), and from there, provides a play-by-play narration of her amazing transformation form Eddie to Lannie. Lannie had been a cross-dressing man for 10 years, but the female persona began to become more of a comfortable identity. Years of "gender therapy" and medical procedures later, Lannie emerged as a fully-realized entity. The ensuing chapters alternate between the introspective (her family's reaction to the news, spirituality and age issues, her harrowing post-operative ordeal) to the frivolous (splurging on two-hundred-dollar jeans, the pitfalls of makeup, breasts, and dating). At 50, the San Jose-based author seems to be just beginning her new life and this book is an eye-opening testament to the arduous the often blissful road Lannie has traveled to become the pers on she is today."
- reviewed in ON Magazine, July 2007