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NASCAR Racer J.T. Hayes' Secret Life
This reads just like a story right out of this site!
This is a mind blower!
It makes one realize that Fiction just isn't that far off of reality.
Outstanding!
Gutsy woman. Good luck to her!
KJT
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Vroom
I half expected that to be a storey about a girlfriend of mine in San Francisco, she once showed me her album of photos and clippings of her wins on the racetrack, she had been the cool guy all the girlfriends of the other drivers loved for his easy friendship and gorgeous hair, very tall natural good looks. All the guys liked him because he was a winner. When she came out or was discovered it did not go over too well so she had to move from wherever she was from.
Last I heard she was running an escourt service ;-)
Terri O'Connell
Saw this on tv tonight
http://www.theinsider.com/news/1200911_Terri_O_Connell_on_Li...
Melanie
Nothing new under the sun
Roberta Cowell, a British racing driver had one of the first 'sex-chages' and wrote a book about it in the fifties or sixties. Unfortunately, she was rather bigoted about it, calling anyone else who did it ie Christine Jorgensen,April Ashley etc. a transvestite.
Angharad
Angharad
ah, solidarity
Don't ya love it. I can recall fenagaling as a kid to stay up late to watch that movie, Christine Jorgenson, pretty lame I guess but it did show possibilities. Bought April Ashleys Odyssey in a second hand shop, hard back, I never buy hardbacks. Interesting story as was Tula, Caroline Cossey. I have since heard the name Roberta Cowell, but I don't know much about her at all. I read Conundrum (Jan Morris) about 5 times and though it skips some things it does give an idea of a life.
I steer clear of 'the scene' for just such reasons as alluded to and more, which makes this place somewhat remarkable. Even where we might not agree, which happens often enough, it seldom gets too heated. Congrats on those that follow their hearts and even more so those that have public scrutiny and still survive.
May we all be more accepting and sympathetic. A pipe dream perhaps. Oh... except for her, she's a bitch. (subtle if dark humour kids, I don't mean Ang or anyone really)
Kristina
I've been outed 3 times in the media
over the years and I don't drive a bloody racing car!
Angharad.
Angharad
Roberta Cowell preceded Jorgensen.
see the link for more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Cowell
Angharad
Angharad
I remember the day Roberta Cowell…
I remember the day Roberta Cowell's story was front page news here in the UK. I was 14 at the time and at my boys' boarding school. I had known I should have been born a girl for a long time and my effeminacy was recognised by many of my schoolmates. For many years I had been the first choice for the girls' parts in school plays, and this only went on to reinforce my stereotype. Then, when I was 14, I saw the story of Roberta Cowell on the front of the Daily Mirror. At that time my voice hadn't broken, I was head chorister of the school's church choir.
My grandfather had always resented that my mother was a girl, hoping she would have been a tough, rugby-playing boy after his own heart, but he had a "bloody girl". My mother thought I could have been all her father had wanted in her, but sadly, from an early age, I somehow knew that I should have beeen born female.
I remember showing the article about Roberta Cowell to my mother; her reaction was (in modern day parlance) "What a weirdo, I'm glad that you are all boy." After that I knew I was doomed, as long as she lived never to be Gabi. (Mum had told me that if I had been a girl I would have been baptised Gabrielle.)
As a result I have lived an unfulfilled life, never to be able to be my real self except amongst my friends here on Top Shelf.
Hugs,
Gabi
Gabi.
We of a certain age ...
... cherish the memories of those early TS reports I'm sure. I remember Roberta Cowell (who, IIRC, was described as a fighter pilot), April Ashley, and Coccinelle. I used to sneak out to buy the News of the World on Sundays when April Ashley's story was serialised over several weeks. I kept the cuttings for years, hidden away. At the time I was sure I was TS (I was in my late teens/early 20s and living/working away from home) but I eventually realised I was merely a TV and now a non-dressing one for over 40 years. I wonder if my life might have been different had the internet information resources been available then.
Another former male motor sport star is Michelle (Mike) Duff who was a very good motorcycle racer in the 60s. Though not at the very top, she had few good placings in the IoM TT and other Grand Prix of the time. I particularly remember her as one of the first to wear what we then called space helmets rather than the pudding basins most of us favoured. Her story is told here: http://www.michelleduff.ca/ It's perhaps more common than we realise.
Geoff