Between Shadow and Sun: A Husband's Journey Through Gender - A Wife's Labor of Love

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MAN’S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH A WOMAN’S LOVE?

By Tina Madison White

Between Shadow and Sun chronicles Tina White’s fifty-year journey to womanhood: her efforts to make sense of life as a man; her awkward first steps into the world as a woman; her struggle to honor and love her family and to hold on to her career. It also captures her family’s attempts to make sense of it all, especially her wife, Mary. Mary was disconsolate over the loss of her husband. Would she embrace the woman who had taken him away from her?

Tom had carved out a successful career helping companies transform. He loved big change. He also loved being a husband and father. His wife, Mary, called him her knight in shining armor. But Tom struggled with a secret: was he a man or a woman? He had agonized over this question for most of his life: “God, let it be anything but this.”

An intimate look at one person’s struggle to make sense of gender and a couple’s attempts to make sense of love.

About the Author

Tina White has built a career transforming businesses, processes, and people. Now she is working on her biggest transformation project yet – herself.

Tina has worked as a commercial and investment banker, a management consultant, a business information manager, and an organization strategist. She and her wife, Mary follow the lives of their five children and five grandchildren from their home outside New York City.

Since coming out, Tina has become vocal in advocating for transgender people and their rights. She contends that, aside from their struggle with gender, transgender people are very normal human beings. They are capable of making great contributions to the world—if only we would let them. Tina has appeared on National Public Radio and