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BIOGRAPHY Califia was born female, into a Mormon family. She came out as a Lesbian in 1971 in Salt Lake City, Utah , and changed her name to ''Pat Califia'', taking the surname Califia after the mythical Amazon. After getting involved in consciousness-raising work in the area she bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco in 1973 , bringing an interest in Sex Education to work on the San Francisco Sex Information switchboard. Her first book was ''Sapphistry'', a non-fiction work which described Butch-femme sexuality and BDSM safety and practice in a non-judgmental tone. Subsequently, she published work in Lesbian , Gay and Feminist magazines. In 1979, as a student in Psychology at San Francisco State University , her research was published in the '' Journal Of Homosexuality ''. With the founding of ''. Califia founded the leatherwomen's quarterly '' Venus Infers '' in 1992 . During this period Califia was both writing about Queer Studies and Gender Identity and coming to terms with these issues on a personal level. During the mid-1990s, Califia decided to transition to a male Gender Role . Califia undertook Testosterone hormone therapy, a double mastectomy and a total hysterectomy. He changed his name to Patrick. Patrick has not yet had a phalloplasty though he has plans to do so in the future. Since the 1990s , Califia has had Fibromyalgia , which has caused nerve damage in his legs and hands and reduced his ability to type or write. He is currently in private practice as a therapist (he is a licensed Marriage Therapist and Family Therapist in the state of California ). He continues to publish his work and attend leather community events. Califia's most recent book is ''Boy in the Middle'', a collection of erotic stories. He is currently working on a number of other projects including a book on FTM sexuality. His pornographic works were often seized by Canadian customs until he fought a court case to allow them to be accepted. Afterwards he wrote of his amusement at finding that anti-porn feminist Catherine Itzin 's book "Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties" was seized under the very law she had helped to establish, while Califia's books were recognised as acceptable by that law. BOOKLIST Non-Fiction
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