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Jennifer Boylan - Transgender Activist [blog]

Started by Shana A, March 30, 2008, 08:41:05 AM

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March 30, 2008, 08:41:05 AM
Jennifer Boylan - Transgender Activist

http://queernetworks.typepad.com/pattyhose/2008/03/jennifer-boylan.html

Jennifer Finney Boylan never set out to be the public face for the transgendered. But the novelist and English professor at Colby College was thrust into that role by her 2002 best-selling memoir about the transition to womanhood that freed her from the decades-long torment of being a female trapped in a male body.

With three appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, two on Larry King Live and numerous other interviews and public appearances, Boylan, 49, has become a sunny-faced activist for the transgendered and one of the most widely recognized transsexuals of recent years. "Activism for me takes the form of living a normal life and doing so very publicly," she said.

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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