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Title: Cate McGregor on leaving Malcolm McGregor behind and becoming a woman
Post by: Ms Grace on February 24, 2014, 12:45:19 PM
Post by: Ms Grace on February 24, 2014, 12:45:19 PM
Cate's big in the news at the moment here in Oz, featured on national TV last night on a very prominent program.
Cate McGregor on leaving Malcolm McGregor behind and becoming a woman (http://www.smh.com.au/national/-33d40.html)
From The Sydney Morning Herald - smh.com.au - by Rick Feneley
....McGregor, the woman, can declare now: ''It's amazing the bliss and ease in my own skin.''
On Wednesday night she and Chaz Bono – formerly Chastity, Sonny and Cher's only child – will feature at the Seymour Centre in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras event ''Queer Thinking: Gender Trailblazers''. On Friday night McGregor will join a feminist forum, ''Women Say Something'', at Sydney Town Hall. She has arrived as a woman. But only two years ago she was a mess: depressed, battling an eating disorder and resisting the persistent voice in her head telling her she could no longer live as Malcolm.
''It was chaos. I thought, 'Am I going mad? There's no upside to becoming a woman. I'll be a laughing stock. I'm going to hurt the person I love most in the world. I'll lose my marriage. I'll lose my job, my career, my house.' I probably didn't get more than two hours sleep on any given night for six months.''
Cate McGregor on leaving Malcolm McGregor behind and becoming a woman (http://www.smh.com.au/national/-33d40.html)
From The Sydney Morning Herald - smh.com.au - by Rick Feneley
....McGregor, the woman, can declare now: ''It's amazing the bliss and ease in my own skin.''
On Wednesday night she and Chaz Bono – formerly Chastity, Sonny and Cher's only child – will feature at the Seymour Centre in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras event ''Queer Thinking: Gender Trailblazers''. On Friday night McGregor will join a feminist forum, ''Women Say Something'', at Sydney Town Hall. She has arrived as a woman. But only two years ago she was a mess: depressed, battling an eating disorder and resisting the persistent voice in her head telling her she could no longer live as Malcolm.
''It was chaos. I thought, 'Am I going mad? There's no upside to becoming a woman. I'll be a laughing stock. I'm going to hurt the person I love most in the world. I'll lose my marriage. I'll lose my job, my career, my house.' I probably didn't get more than two hours sleep on any given night for six months.''