About Jenna Ware Books
Jenna Ware is/was an MSW, LCSW, clinical social worker, and before that was in the U.S. Navy in the National Security Agency, NSOC, NSGA, working with SIGINT, Ft. Meade, MD. She made the social/anatomical switch from male to female in 1981, with SRS (transsexual); worked in forensics and with chronic/sub-acute; and has helped or supported LGBT since the early 1980s in areas such as but not limited to transition, social integration, employment, rape and suicidality. After graduate school, Jenna obtained her private pilot certificate, eventually getting her ATP S&M and CFI, focused primarily on tailwheel transition training. In 1989, at the age of 32, she met a fellow pilot at the airport, an older man of 72, and they never separated. He was in aerospace, helped make the 1st 2 Air Force Ones for President Eisenhower, the U-2, and the SR-71. Though he was a conservative Republican Christian 40 years older, and Jenna was a liberal Democrat Jew (by conversion mid 1980s), they were joined at the hip. She helped found the Joseph F. Ware, Jr. Advanced Engineering Laboratory at Virginia Tech. From their 22-year relationship, and 17-year marriage (until his passing in 2012), Jenna internalized the concept of respect with difference, something the world needs if it ever intends to get along. Living "stealth" for 31 years, from 1985 to 2016, Jenna made numerous mistakes in her life, costing her (literally) millions of dollars, complicating her life and her marriage, until she learned she was causing most of her problems, herself, or making them worse than they needed to be. Inspired by Kenji Yoshino of "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Liberties," she brings the concept of embracing self to other trans people of all kinds.
