Mike Penner, sports writer for the LA Times, published a column yesterday outing himself as a pre-op transexual; during leave in the next few weeks, he will become a post-op.
I have joined several people on the journey of admitting, both internally and, eventually, externally, to homosexuality; often they were women who dated men for a long while, hoping that the way in which they felt "different" was due to not having yet found the right man and not what they knew to be true somewhere deep down in their gut, that there would never be a right man, only a right woman.
I can only imagine how the difficulty of that kind of sexual orientation journey is compounded by transexuality. Even as the country becomes more comfortable with same sex couples, transexuality is still part of the misunderstood fringe. It was bold for Mike to come to terms with his need to become Christine and amazing that he could share it with the rest of us.
Kudos to you, Christine - I hope you have a speedy recovery from your surgery!
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