Out of the Ordinary: a life of gender and spiritual transitions

Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship's surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (Author) (1915-62) was an English physician, the first female-to-male post-operative transsexual, and a Buddhist monastic novice.

Jacob Lau (Edited By) is a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow through the Program for Faculty Diversity in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Cameron Partridge (Edited By) is an Episcopal priest, theologian, scholar of trans and religious studies, and an openly transgender man. He has taught at Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School and Episcopal Divinity School and is currently the rector of St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in San Francisco.

Susan Stryker (Foreword By) is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. She has written and edited several books including, most recently, Transgender History.

 

Foreword by Susan Stryker Editors' Note "In His Own Way, In His Own Time" An Introduction to Out of the Ordinary Out of the Ordinary Author's Introduction Part I. Conquest of the Body 1. Birth and Origins 2. The Nursery 3. Schooldays 4. Oxford 5. War--The Darkest of Days Part II. Conquest of the Mind 6. Medical Student 7. Resident Medical Officer 8. Surgeon M.N. 9. On the Haj 10. Round the World 11. Interlude Ashore 12. The Last Voyage 13. Imji Getsul Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka: A Timeline Acknowledgments