Sperling: A lesson from Susan Stanton
By Laura Sperling
Published: Friday, January 14, 2011 at 1:00 a.m.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110114/COLUMNIST/101141009/2055/NEWS?p=1&tc=pgEarlier this month, I finally caught the CNN documentary "Her Name Was Steven." It was a rerun but an enlightening one. The lesson I took from it was this:
The story of Susan Stanton is not just about her. Or the him she used to be. It is about us -- we "regular" folks -- and how we misjudge, grow and learn.
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As the selection process played out at the time, I wrote a column about my ambivalent "struggle to comprehend" Stanton's gender issue.
