This account of one transsexual's prison experiences speaks for all transsexuals caught in the system.  It tells of a heartless, authoritarian prison bureaucracy, a state within a state, unmindful of either human rights or dignity and stupefied by its own ineptness.  Unqualified personnel make judgements which affect the lives of others.   Frustration, anxiety and health undermined by stress and a savage snakepit of human misery, quite beyond the concept of the free man or woman on the street, are prevalent.

Forget the picture of overpainted, bejeweled, flaunting and mincing creatures.   They belong to another world.  Transsexuals are not like that.  They want the same thing as other people - the ability to get on with their lives in reasonable security, free of harassment, going about their daily business and doing things which most people take for granted and regard as normal.

Part I by Kathy Johnson

1. The Early Years
2. Welcome to the B.C. (British Columbia) Pen
3. Meet My Friend Joe
4. Life or Death
5. Self-surgery is Not Recommended
6. The Hell of Joyceville and Millhaven
7. Release From Purgatory

Part II by Stephanie Castle

1. Transsexualism Described
2. Sisyphus, The King of Corinth
3. Some Outside Opinions
4. Weird Trash
5. My Home is Hell
6. The Psychiatrists and Psychologists Take a Hand
7. "J'Accuse"
8. Some Conclusions and Comments