BECOMING WOMAN is a deeply personal journey of Paula’s transition. When Paula met Belinda in 2003, they conceived the idea of a series of images that would challenge the oft-touted media stereotype of the transsexual woman as a freak and an outsider on the margins of society. They sought to challenge the viewer’s preconceptions with a different viewpoint – that of the transsexual woman as woman…as everyday woman, employee, commuter, shopper, friend, lover…as the woman next to you on the bus, in the street, across the counter. Paula feels that she most likely born with the neurological structures of a female and the body and genitals of a male. Trans-sexuality, in concert with psychological and social factors, led to her growing up as she says, using a perhaps naive but essentially accurate expression, “a woman trapped in a man’s body”.