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Jan Morris, a very famous trans author, as well as one of the earliest major public figures to undergo SRS, just passed away. She was 94. I only discovered her writing last year, while working on a college paper, but reading her autobiography, Conundrum, was a blend of heart-wrenching and inspiring.
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Conundrum
It was in our local library. First of anything that I read about anyone being trans, much less myself.
Love, Andrea Lena
She broke the news of the first ascent of Everest
for the London times in 1953
Her picture is on the front of today's edition. The Times
Samantha
Oh There Are People Like Me
And she sounds so sane!
Back in the Ice Age of you wanted information about "transvestites" you mostly had to go to an adult bookstore that smelled like disinfectant.
Then Jan Morris' book came out.
Wow! I felt like a new woman.
RIP and live the scene with the cab driver forever.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
I'm glad the news of her passing was noted...
I read her story (and every book/article about gender identity that I could find) as a teenager. She and others gave me hope that those of us who were "different" could be accepted. The link of the news article was greatly appreciated.
Dee
Donna
Being Welsh,
and I was born there, she wasn't, her nationalistic bias in Connundrum annoyed me and I wrote and told her so via her publisher. Peculiarly, she didn't respond though I would have enjoyed the argument if she had. Besides that, I had great respect for her as a writer and woman albeit one from an earlier generation to me which probably explains her quirkiness.
Angharad
And of course;
There's that really cruel question that every Welshman asks the 'saes'.
"Tell me, (insert his name, e.g. Tommy,) what's it like not being Welsh?
which will often then
degenerate into calling into question the Welshmans ancestry, vis a vis which ewe was his mother. Now there are a lot sheep in Cymru so there is often some doubt to parentage, the farmers not being so fussy as when his ram tups the flock.
Madeline Anafrid Bell