Candice Hart: A life before transition
LGBT PRIDE: SENIORS by Camille Beredjick
2012-06-20
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Candice-Hart-A-life-before-transition-/38236.htmlTake off your shoes. Put them on the opposite feet.
You can walk around like that for a while, but it'll gnaw at you. If you're distracted, you can get through the day. But no matter what, you know something isn't right.
That's how Candice Hart described her life before her transition—productive, sometimes even fulfilling, but never true to the person she was. Now 62 years old, parent to two grown children and a vocal activist in Chicago's transgender community, she's finally embracing the person she's always been.
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Hart said she knew she was a girl as early as age 4. As a kid, she would dress up in women's clothes with her twin sister. She was horrified when puberty hit and made male body features inevitable. She was afraid to tell anyone—back then, "transgender" wasn't in mainstream lexicon, and she was worried she would be institutionalized.
