strongNow available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael DillonLobzang Jivakastrong 1915-62, the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book emSelf A Study in Ethics and Endocrinologyem. strongHere at last is DillonJivaka's extraordinary life story told in his own words.brstrongbremOut of the Ordinary emcaptures DillonJivaka's various journeys--to Oxford, into medicine, across the world by ship--within the major narratives of his gender and religious journeys. Moving chronologically, DillonJivaka begins with his childhood in Folkestone, England, where he was raised by his spinster aunts, and tells of his days at Oxford immersed in theology, classics, and rowing. He recounts his hormonal transition while working as an auto mechanic and fire watcher during World War II and his