http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... t=1&f=1003
The above is a link to a NPR story about a crossdresser. Interesting. there is also an audio file, but I could not get it to work and deleted it.
Edit: OK, try this one: http://hearingvoices.com/
The Crossdressing Family Man NPR story
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The Crossdressing Family Man NPR story
"It’s not given to anyone to have no regrets; only to decide, through the choices we make, which regrets we’ll have,"
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I heard that one, Carolyn. I always have NPR on when I'm doing my make-up, and tonight I was getting ready for my support group.
It was quite a story. If you didn't hear the lead-in, you would have thought it was a totally different story, too. It would have appeared to be a story about a lawyer who was banished from his profession because he developed a Parkinson-like disease. Then a drug was discovered that helped bring him back from the effects of the disease.
But it also lowered inhibitions in the people who took it, and that's when people discovered that he wanted to become a woman, and he begin to work on doing just that.
And at that point in the story, the wife begins to describe the "coming-out" process. That was a tough part of the narrative. She talks about learning about this when she's already pregnant, already committed, and how she had a hard time with it. And she talks about the children's negative reactions to it.
In the end. the wife has a lot more to say about acceptance.
It was quite a story. If you didn't hear the lead-in, you would have thought it was a totally different story, too. It would have appeared to be a story about a lawyer who was banished from his profession because he developed a Parkinson-like disease. Then a drug was discovered that helped bring him back from the effects of the disease.
But it also lowered inhibitions in the people who took it, and that's when people discovered that he wanted to become a woman, and he begin to work on doing just that.
And at that point in the story, the wife begins to describe the "coming-out" process. That was a tough part of the narrative. She talks about learning about this when she's already pregnant, already committed, and how she had a hard time with it. And she talks about the children's negative reactions to it.
In the end. the wife has a lot more to say about acceptance.