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In Conversation With Elisabeth L. Morrissey, Author of It’s Not All About You: Living with a Transsexual Spouse or Partner
- By Bee Lindy
- Published June 13, 2023
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Bookpleasures.com welcomesas our guest Elisabeth L. Morrissey whose recent self-help book, It’s Not All About You: Living with a Transsexual Spouse or Partner, was published on May 23, 2023.
Elisabeth Morrissey
learned a lot as a volunteer for several years at the Gender Identity
Center of Colorado, a transgender support organization, and from her
twenty-five-year marriage to a male-to-female transsexual.
She is otherwise a homemaker and support system for her spouse, Karen.
Bee: Welcome Sallie and thank you for taking part in our interview.
Bee: When did you decide to write It’s Not All About You? Had you been thinking about it for awhile or did it just pop into your head one day?
Elisabeth: Not that I needed it myself, but every time I’d visit the Tattered Cover (Denver’s biggest and best bookstore), I’d comb through the books in the LGBT section to see if anyone had written a book like this.
I finally decided to do it myself. I tell this story in the book.
Bee: What was the process like for writing It’s Not All About You, from concept to fruition?
Elisabeth: I just dove in
and started scribbling it one night. My wife and I host a writers’
group, and they gave me a lot of great feedback. I also read about
fifty books on transfolk.
Many were autobiographies. Also, a lot on masculinity, femininity, and brain sex.
Bee: Can you tell us more about the issues you encountered with getting any necessary permissions for some of the scenario’s you included in the book? Or, how did you handle including the scenarios?
Elisabeth: I actually know (or did), most of the people in those stories, and asked if I could write about them. For the ones I heard about second-hand, I changed the names to protect the innocent (and the guilty).
Bee: If you could time travel 30 years back to your younger self, what advice would you give?
Elisabeth: Take care of my knees.
Bee: If you could meet three people living, dead, or fictional, who would they be? Why?
Elisabeth: Judy Bloom. I loved her books so much as a kid. Rita Mae Brown. I’ve never read a bad book of hers. Hillary Clinton; because I’m a political junkie and she’s seen politics from so many angles.
Bee: “If you could spend a day with a famous author, politician, actor, activist, etc.. Who would it be?”
Elisabeth: President Obama. He’s so smart and I’d love to get the backstory on a lot that went on during his term.
Bee: Thanks again and good luck with ‘It’s Not All About You’!