Dec. 1, 1952: Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty

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Submitted by Misty Meenor on Wed, 2010/12/01 - 3:25pm

I'm surprised nobody else caught this!

I remember it like yesterday

Submitted by littlerocksilver on Wed, 2010/12/01 - 4:02pm.

I was in fifth grade, and the effects were profound. Many of the kids had read the article, and the teacher, bless her heart, tried to explain what went on. the class members coouldn't keep quiet about it. Either she didn't have a clue or just out and out lied to us.

Portia

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Portia

I remember on 1953 when she

Submitted by Jill Micayla on Wed, 2010/12/01 - 4:59pm.

I remember on 1953 when she came home I connected with her as I read her story in the newspaper, I was three and reading newspapers and other books, I did not know why I connected but to me it seemed that we had something in common

Jill Micayla
Be kinder than necessary,Because everyone you meet
Is fighting some kind of battle.

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Jill Micayla
Be kinder than necessary,Because everyone you meet
Is fighting some kind of battle.

But then there's this...

Submitted by Andrea Lena DiMaggio on Wed, 2010/12/01 - 6:26pm.

On May 15th, 1951 Robert Cowell became Roberta Cowell the
United Kingdom's first full surgically altered transsexual.
http://www.transgenderzone.com/features/roberta_cowell.htm

Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena

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Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later,
and then you still have to decide what to do. ― C.S. Lewis
Love, Andrea Lena

Christine...

Submitted by Annette on Wed, 2010/12/01 - 7:32pm.

I can actually thank Christine for something... My mother-in-law, while living in Boston and working for one of the newspapers there as a reporter, interviewed her surgeon for an article... So, when my wife & I explained to her that I was trans, she had known about it for longer than I'd been alive and was quite ready to be accepting (& has been!)...

Thanks for sharing this,
Anne