La Cross Tribune – Kate Schott
Miguel began wearing lipstick at age 9.
He was born male, but said he always felt like he was female, Anne Rubenstein told a group of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students.
By age 12, Miguel had run away from home, become a prostitute and taken the name Zulma. At 18, she went to Tijuana for a sex change operation but wound up spending six months in jail for assault.
She was stabbed to death weeks after her release from prison.
Rubenstein, an associate professor of history at York University in Toronto, discovered a ?non-fiction novel? that describes Zulma?s life while looking at a coffee table book about novel covers.