Ecstatic
04-30-2009, 11:06 PM
Transgender world sees hope
"I think we're making significant progress regarding basic understanding."
By Karen Auge
The Denver Post
Posted: 04/28/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT
Updated: 04/28/2009 09:42:12 AM MDT
Stacy Kilpatrick puts on makeup last week before running errands. Kilpatrick is in transition to become the woman she always has thought she could be. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
The redhead in the brown T-shirt and strappy sandals doesn't want to give her name because at work — she's a mechanic — they think she's a guy.
Which, technically, she is. Straddling the gulf between what she has outside and what she is inside requires a juggling act whose toll is evident in the coins that jangle in her hands, in the crossed leg that never stops swinging.
Julie is fidgety too. In seven days, she'll board a plane for Philadelphia, where she'll be wheeled into an operating room and emerge a new person.
Full article: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12241313
"I think we're making significant progress regarding basic understanding."
By Karen Auge
The Denver Post
Posted: 04/28/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT
Updated: 04/28/2009 09:42:12 AM MDT
Stacy Kilpatrick puts on makeup last week before running errands. Kilpatrick is in transition to become the woman she always has thought she could be. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
The redhead in the brown T-shirt and strappy sandals doesn't want to give her name because at work — she's a mechanic — they think she's a guy.
Which, technically, she is. Straddling the gulf between what she has outside and what she is inside requires a juggling act whose toll is evident in the coins that jangle in her hands, in the crossed leg that never stops swinging.
Julie is fidgety too. In seven days, she'll board a plane for Philadelphia, where she'll be wheeled into an operating room and emerge a new person.
Full article: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12241313