The Life & Death Of A Trans Woman

By Jason Kirsch

Stella is a trans woman surviving on the streets of Portland, working as a sex worker and navigating a world that sees her as both invisible and dangerous. Hardened by experience, she's learned to protect herself with sharp instincts, emotional walls, and-if needed-a gun.

But the same defenses that keep her alive are also killing her slowly. As she drifts through neon-lit nights and cold morning sidewalks, the story flashes between past and present, revealing how Stella's identity was shaped-layer by layer-by pain, desire, rejection, and resilience.

This is not a redemption tale. It's a raw, intimate portrait of one woman's battle to hold onto herself in a city that keeps trying to take her apart. Beneath the surface is a deeper struggle: the fight to trade survival for meaning, and fear for connection.

The Life & Death of a Trans Woman is about what we build to stay alive-and what it costs to finally live.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FHJNCW6R
• ISBN13: 9798292519829
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"