Activist discusses transsexual challenges

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Activist discusses transsexual challenges

By Andrew Barbato
SENIOR WRITER
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2012

http://www.thestylus.net/news/activist-discusses-transsexual-challenges-1.2945693

Writer, civil rights activist and professor Jennifer Finney Boylan gave a fun and insightful speech about her experiences living a transgendered life Nov. 1 in the Union Ballroom.

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"I stood at the edge of a cliff," Boylan said. "I was playing a game with the wind and thought, 'OK, this is what you came to do, do it.'

"Just then a huge gust of wind came and blew me on my back and I landed in a pile of moss. Then I heard a voice say, 'Are you alright? You're going to be alright.' I believe this was the voice of my future self, letting me know everything was going to be OK."

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"I did adolescence as a boy," Boylan said. "Then, in my 30s and 40s I started taking estrogen and I went through adolescence again. It sucked; it was like stepping on thin ice. Looking in the mirror and asking, 'Is that me, is that me, is that me?'"