Tech lecture series helps shed light on transgender issues
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/101808/loc_345794858.shtml10/18/2008
Alone, the boy grabbed his mother's lipstick from the bathroom
counter. Clutched in his hand, it felt like a prize, one he knew his
schoolmates in this tiny town in the Texas Panhandle, and his parents,
who did manual labor to support he and his sister, would reject him,
possibly hate him, for wanting.
But they weren't here. His parents at work, the boy, about 11, pressed
the tube to his lips.
Since Bobby was about 6, he'd been drawn to his sister's dolls and his
mother's heels and dresses. When he was smaller, his mother would
giggle when he strutted around the house in her clothes, but as he
grew older he learned these things were not for him.
