Helen Boyd

Helen Boyd (right) and Betty Crow in 2005

Cross-dressing
History of cross-dressing
Breeches role · Breeching Travesti · In film and television In wartime · Pantomime dame
Key elements
As a transgender identity Passing · Transvestism
Modern drag culture
Ball culture · Drag Drag king · Drag pageantry Drag queen · Faux queen List of drag queens
Sexual aspects
Autoandrophilia · Autogynephilia Feminization · Pinafore eroticism Transvestic fetishism Sissy · Transgender sexuality
Sexual attraction to cross-dressers
Andromimetophilia Gynemimetophilia
Other aspects
Bacha posh · Crossplay En femme Female masking Girlfag and guydyke Gender disguise
Passing as male
Breast binding · Packing
Passing as female
Cleavage enhancement Hip and buttock padding
Organizations
Tri-Ess
Books
My Husband Betty She's Not The Man I Married
v · d · e

Helen Boyd (1969) is the pen name of Gail Kramer, the American author of two books^[1] about her relationship with her transgender partner. Her partner is referred to in both books as "Betty Crow", though this is also a pseudonym.

Biography

Helen Boyd graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The City College of New York in 1995 with a degree in literature. She has been a guest speaker at trans conferences, including the IFGE, First Event^[2], Fantasia Fair, Southern Comfort, the Chicago Be-All, and also at special events like Trans Issues Week at Yale University. Helen and Betty have spoken about LGBT marriage on PBS’s In The Life.^[3][4] As of 2011, she is also a Lecturer of Gender and Freshman Studies at Lawrence University^[5].

Boyd also runs the mHB Forums, a message board for the discussion of crossdressing- and transgender-related topics. The community associated with the board is noted for its willingness to debate sacred cows of the transgender community.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

My Husband Betty

My Husband Betty (2004, Thunder's Mouth Press, ISBN 1-56025-515-3) is a non-fiction book by author Helen Boyd about crossdressers and their partners. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

Unlike many other books about the topic of crossdressing, it is written specifically from the partner's point of view by a partner and takes a distinctively feminist approach. Although the author's husband was a crossdresser at the time of publication, she now considers herself "trans", a word chosen specifically because it was less well defined (and therefore less restrictive) than "transgender".

She's Not The Man I Married

Boyd's second book is She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband (Seal Press, 2007).

See also

• List of transgender-related topics
• Transgender publications

References

1. ^ Seal Press '"Helen Boyd's Author Page", accessed February 13, 2011
2. ^ Transgender American Veterans Association "First Event 2007 Press Release", accessed February 14, 2011
3. ^ http://www.inthelifetv.org/html/episodes/7.html
4. ^ http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2004/09/06/pbs-show-correction/
5. ^ http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/gender_studies/faculty.shtml

External links

• (en)Gender: Author's weblog
• Helen Boyd Books

Persondata
Name	Boyd, Helen
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death