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I'm not a great one for reading the newspapers, as I find the constant barrage of negativity and bad news tends to tilt the balance of sanity towards deep depression and paranoia. When you realise that actually the world has a lot more good things happening than bad, but the media don't make any money from them.
Read this Transgender Ballerina
Found it hopeful.
Tanya
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isn't this
the next step after Matthew Bourne's all male Swan Lake?
Angharad
All male ballet
Or one of my long-time favorites, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
Astounding and uplifting true story
The Times wouldn't let me read the article (I cancelled my subscription years ago for the reason you mentioned Tanya) but looking for other sources I came across the amazing story of the transition of a major Chinese dancer Jin Xing.
Rhona McCloud
The time to start worrying about the news ...
... is when it's all good because news is about unusual things (ie new). After all if there was a report that no-one was shot in Nottingham today that would imply that someone was shot most days and a murder free day was unusual.
Of course there will always be reports on rare but bad/good neutral things like the ballerina you mention.
Like Cathy (in Bike) and Angharad herself, I think, I'd miss my Guardian at breakfast. The ideal way to start the day for an elderly person of leisure :)
Robi
Interesting
I must however object to the phrase, "born a man," and its equivalent, 'born a woman,'. This is literally impossible and I find that its use perpetuates negative stereotypes. Suppose one transitions before puberty and can never be a man by most logical accounts? I don't know why the press keeps it up.
Sydney Moya
large ballerina
Same problem as Rhona with reading the whole story.
Wow, the ballet would have to recruit rugby players to do the lifts.
Again, the UK is more open minded than my fellow Yanks, ie bathroom laws.
I wasn't able to read enough. is 'she'? tg/ts?
Karen