Speaker discusses transition from man to woman

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Speaker discusses transition from man to woman
By Brittany Truscott
For the Collegian

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/02/24/transgender_economist_spoke.aspx

When Donald McCloskey was 11 years old, he would go to bed praying to God to be a girl.

At age 53, that wish came true. After 30 years married to a woman, becoming a father to two children, and in the middle of a successful career as an economist, Donald McCloskey became Deirdre McCloskey — making the transition to become a woman through reconstructive surgery.

McCloskey, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, spoke to students throughout the past few days in various engagements on Penn State's campus — in the economics department, in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ally community, and finally, at the HUB-Robeson Center, where she discussed her identity and her career.