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If I recall correctly....
...this does not bestow upon her the title of "Dame", am I right? In any case, a monumental achievement for one of us.
It is difficult to imagine the trials she must have gone through as a pioneering transsexual. I can't help but think, though, that I would have gladly gone through all that if I looked as gorgeous as she did in her youth.
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel
You are right
MBE is not a Dame. Dame is, if I'm not mistaken, the equivalent award for a woman that a knighthood is for a man. It could be argued that MBE is a token decoration and the lowest. Nevertheless, it's an achievement and an acknowledgement of a job well done.
I have been privileged to meet April; she is a delightful woman.
S.
BEM is the lowest award
then MBE, OBE and so on.
It's still a lovely recognition, all the same.
Angharad
But...
Does she not look every inch the grande dame in those pictures? (And more power to her elbow - I hope I look that good when I'm seventy -seven!)
I take my hat off to her.
Xi
April Ashley
deserves to be titled as Dame April Ashley.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Selh-knowledge
I used her story, and her exposure, in "Sweat and Tears", largely because it mirrored my own experiences. I have never been confused, but rather in a continual state of indignation: why was I born like this? It was reading April's story, as a newspaper serial when I was around eleven years old, that showed me that there was actually a way out of my dilemma. That was the thing that, in essence, kept me alive--the existence of a way, an opportunity, to put things right in my own life.
Literally an inspiration to me.