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The pain of positive change

Started by Shana A, March 23, 2012, 10:23:05 AM

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Shana A

March 23, 2012, 10:23:05 AM
The pain of positive change

By Terri Schlichenmeyer on March 22, 2012

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/03/22/the-pain-of-positive-change/

Change — good or bad — is often tough. Trans author Joy Ladin knows that first hand.

Pain had accompanied her for most of her days, but in her new book "Through the Door of Life," she explains a journey that was, for her, long overdue.

Joy Ladin "never much wanted to live."

Born into relative privilege, Ladin, born male, had a good childhood, but death "seemed close." Ladin remembers thinking that the idea of dying was exciting, while life was not because life, at the time, was spent in the wrong body.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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