The Hill profiles Frank legislative aide Diego Sanchez
by: Pam Spaulding
Wed Mar 11, 2009 at 15:30:00 PM EDT
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=293FFA909FFDDB4693BC801DDC3010DF?diaryId=9864It's great to see the quite marvelous Diego Sanchez, Barney Frank's new legislative assistant, get some ink in a profile over at The Hill.
Appearance matters to Diego Sanchez, whose black blazer, blue jeans and gold-striped tie are worn confidently. A neatly manicured goatee, mustache and close-cropped silver hair frame the 51-year-olds smile. The newest addition to Rep. Barney Franks (D-Mass.) staff, Sanchez also boasts an impeccable résumé. Named one of the 100 most powerful Latinos in corporate America by Hispanic Business magazine, Sanchez carries 29 years of experience in corporate public relations, diversity management and healthcare policy work.
But what the new legislative aides Capitol colleagues may not know is that Sanchez was born a female. Sanchez is the only University of Georgia letterman known to have earned the letter on the womens tennis team. From an early age, Sanchez wasnt comfortable being a girl. I spent lots of years feeling like I had just feasted on that Thanksgiving meal and then was told that it was time for the family bathing-suit fashion show, Sanchez said. And its not that you look huge, its that you feel like you look huge. I looked like a very not-good-looking woman; I was not a pretty girl, and I felt like I was a man.
full article here
http://thehill.com/cover-stories/i-was-not-a-pretty-girl-and-i-felt-like-i-was-a-man-2009-03-10.html
