Transubstantiation Arthur Becker is born with a vagina. He she is named Marta. The Arthur comes by way of his implacable, relentless insistences. His or her instincts and interests are male, watch him toss a perfect football spiral-and other things What can follow from such conflict but confusion and pain, and at an early age, when his body can tolerate nothing great in alleviation, only palliatives. He is raped. Years pass before he is able to absorb without great danger the major infusion of hormones Sorry but we can't but be fucking with your frontal cortex-his endocrinologist trying to be reassuringly lite-hip, and then the bigtime sine qua non, an actual but of course jerry-rigged penis-which, in low uncertain voice, the surgeon and the endocrinologists vouch, just might work-although then again Medicine isn't perfect, m'boy, some estrogen's gonna be hangin'in there, son. Experiments follow-meaning dates, with girls. Meaning right-fit careers for a guy like Arthur Acting Miming So