INTERLUDE VI Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover Stories for Bewildered Future Trans Men Living in the Greater Chicago Area Between the Years 1994–2002

Cosmopolitan Magazine: Don’t Bother Asking Anyone Else About It, Just Assume Most Women Feel This Way

“I Just Happen to Be a Modest Person—But You Look Great In It!” and Other Demurrals

Breasts and Your Summer Wardrobe: Other People Seem to Like That You Have Them, Just Take Their Cues and Go From There

Nobody Likes Fitting-Room Mirrors, So Don’t Waste Time Investigating Your Own Fitting-Room Experiences: Most Women Have Negative Body-Image Issues, So It’s Safe to Say That’s Probably Just What You’re Feeling, Too

Try the Pill: It’s Still HRT, Kind Of

Dress for Success: Getting Male Attention with the Body You Have, Not the Body You Want

We Polled 100 Readers About Sex: “Mostly This Seems Fine.”

If You’re a Boy, Then Why Are All the Boys You Know Either Mean or Indifferent Toward You? Checkmate.

How to Half-Heartedly Try to Dress Butch Once and Look Weird So You Never Think About *Waves Arms Generally* That Whole Thing Again

Fan Fiction: Maybe That’s What This Thing Is? I Don’t Know, You’re Not Giving Me a Lot to Work With Here

Maybe Try That Microwaved Doughnut Trick? Anything to Keep Attention Off Whatever Your Body’s Doing Right Now

If You Were, You’d Know, and You Don’t Know, So You’re Not. Right? Do You Know? Does Someone Else Here Know? And Other Letters to the Editor (She Doesn’t Know, Either, Please Stop Writing and Asking)