Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
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Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was
written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (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 Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology.
Here at last is Dillon/Jivaka's extraordinary life story told in
his own words.Out of the Ordinary captures Dillon/Jivaka's various
journeys--to Oxford, into medicine, across the world by
ship--within the major narratives of his gender and religious
journeys. Moving chronologically, Dillon/Jivaka 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 surgical transition under Sir Harold Gillies while
Dillon himself attended medical school. He details his worldwide
travel as a ship's surgeon in the British Merchant Navy with
extensive commentary on his interactions with colonial and
postcolonial subjects, followed by his outing by the British press
while he was serving aboard The City of Bath.Out of the Ordinary is
not only a salient record of an early sex transition but also a
unique account of religious conversion in the mid-twentieth
century. Dillon/Jivaka chronicles his gradual shift from Anglican
Christianity to the esoteric spiritual systems of George Gurdjieff
and Peter Ouspensky to Theravada and finally Mahayana Buddhism. He
concludes his memoir with the contested circumstances of his
Buddhist monastic ordination in India and Tibet. Ultimately, while
Dillon/Jivaka died before becoming a monk, his novice ordination
was significant: It made him the first white European man to be
ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.Out of the Ordinary is a
landmark publication that sets free a distinct voice from the
history of the transgender movement.
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