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"It was a modern coming-out"

Started by Butterfly, November 14, 2009, 01:44:54 AM

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November 14, 2009, 01:44:54 AM
"It was a modern coming-out"
The Globe And Mail
By André Picard
Nov. 13, 2009 5:35PM EST


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/special-reports/breaking-through/it-was-a-modern-coming-out/article1362949/


One night, in May of 2007, Michel Blanc was lying in bed with his wife watching CNN. Larry King was interviewing a transsexual – someone who had undergone a sex change.

Mr. Blanc turned to his wife and said: "If you would die, that's what I would do – I would change gender."

With those words, "a time bomb went off" in his head, plunging him into a profound depression. Mr. Blanc, a former football player and successful Internet entrepreneur, had been hiding for 45 years that he had always felt like a woman.
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