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- From: w2lee@argo.acs.oakland.edu (Lorraine Lee)
- Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
- Subject: Re: Awakening
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.013624.13261@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 01:36:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.004551.8023@fuug.fi>
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- In article <1992Dec30.004551.8023@fuug.fi>, an1154@anon.penet.fi (Erika) writes:
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- ...
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- >About a year ago there was a documentary film on PBS about a TS in California.
- >It took her from the start of her SRS transition period through the uncertainty
- >of whether she would have/be allowed to have SRS. The empathy that I felt
- >while watching this show remains with me today.
-
- Was that the film "Metamorphosis: Man into Woman" on the "P.O.V." series on
- PBS? I watched that film many times due to the modern miracle of VHS. That
- only one out of twenty candidates gets as far as SRS is sobering, to say the
- least. But Gaby(sp?)'s experiences were uplifting.
-
- ...
-
- >ultimately SRS (if allowed to get that far) would take years. Since I am
- >older, I have less of these available. By the time I got there, how many
- >years would I have to enjoy the accomplishment? Such may be the price for
- >growing up in a time when TS was less known and SRS was less available.
-
- Thanks to those tabloid TV shows everyone (including me) hates, I pretty much
- grew up knowing it is at least a technological possibility. I count that
- perspective as an enormous blessing, needless to say.
-
- >Now it is time for me to start reading to find more information and answers
- >to the questions that have been filling my head since I started to face
- >my tendencies. If someone saved the book list, could you please send it
- >to me since I lost the one that was posted a while ago.
- >
- >Love to all,
- >
- >Erika
-
- I hope your journey leads to happiness.
-
-
- Warm hugs,
- Lorraine
-