TRANScend GENDER

Having reviewed “Transvestite Wives” earlier, I felt it was only fair to give a similar treatment to “My Secret Female Body”, another in the ‘Reveals’ series that premiered on BBC America on June 22, 2008.
This documentary focused on a twenty two year old transman, Danny. From the BBC America web site:
Born as Katie, Danny has [...]

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In Britain a transsexual girl has become something of a minor celebratory since she appeared on a TV programme which showed her story. A former captain in the parachute regiment, much was made in the documentary of how she was Britain’s first ‘Sex Change Soldier’ and apparently the only soldier to have had a sex-change [...]

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Have you ever cast a bottle with a note into the sea; a note to a helium balloon and let it go or driven down the high way with your headlights turned off at night?
What makes us do these things? Testing of faith? I have done these and many other things before… and I have [...]

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A positive news article covering both a success story and the legal implications (but why is it in ‘Fashion and Style’?)
Through Sickness, Health and Sex Change

“We’re one of the few of our friends who are still in our original marriage,” Denise Brunner said.
But it is not exactly the same union, as evidenced by their [...]

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