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Title: Father, daughter write book about transgender journey
Post by: traci_k on May 22, 2015, 07:30:56 AM
Father, daughter write book about transgender journey

http://www.wmtw.com/news/father-daughter-write-book-about-transgender-journey/33154068

WMTW.com Video clip with transcript
By Tracy Sabol
UPDATED 6:04 PM EDT May 21, 2015

".... A PORTLAND ATTORNEY AND HIS DAUGHTER HAVE COLLABORATED ON A BOOK ABOUT THEIR STORY, A JOURNEY THEY SAY HAS COME FULL CIRCLE. NICOLE WAS BORN IN 1965 WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN AT COLLEGE. FROM THE MOMENT SHE WAS BORN AS A HE, WE WERE BEST FRIENDS. TRACY: DERRY RUNDLETT SAYS NICOLE IS HIS BEST FRIEND. 10 YEARS AGO, WHEN NICOLE, WHO WAS KNOWN AS NET, TOLD HIM HE WAS IN THERAPY AND PLAN TO UNDERGO GENDER REASSIGNMENT,HE WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE. THE FIRST QUESTION WHEN THEIR PARENT IS GOING TO DIFFICULTIES, DID I DO SOMETHING TO CAUSE THIS? TRACY: BUT HE SOON REALIZED THAT WAS NOT THE CASE AND IT WAS SOMETHING NICOLE STRUGGLED WITH FOR YEARS. I DID NOT UNDERSTAND  "

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