Sports Illustrated and the Young Transsexual

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Sports Illustrated and the Young Transsexual
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By Lisa Jain Thompson     
21 July, 2010


http://ts-si.org/global-warning/26095-sports-illustrated-and-the-young-transsexual


I remember when mother subscribed to Sports Illustrated [N1]. It was something all the other young "boys" were eager to read.

My father was rather geeky — a self-taught amateur radio ham and a broadcast radio and television engineer (he had help designed and build the built the television transmitter at which he worked). [N2]

His interest in sports other than baseball and boxing was minimal and he spent long hours in the garage working his ham set CQing others like him around the world. [N3]

Perhaps she thought I would be more normal, more boyish so to speak — not geeky like my father — if the bible of the sporting world arrived in our mailbox each week. Not as strange, more like the other boys my age. More macho so to speak. I might even learn to speak from my chest like all the other guys.