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Title: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: Natasha on March 19, 2008, 05:33:03 PM
Post by: Natasha on March 19, 2008, 05:33:03 PM
"My Secret Self" (2007)
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03/19/2007
"This is a five part video series of recently aired ABC episodes of
20/20. It features Barbara Walters as she interviews the families of
young transgender children. It is amazingly unbiased, sensitive, and
well done. Have your kleenex handy...."
Watch Video - part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utpam0IGYac
Watch Video - part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F9CaPyQz8
Watch Video - part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W17z6KeiNY
Watch Video - part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSkQlWUX_eI
Watch Video - part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib_yE5WILJc
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03/19/2007
"This is a five part video series of recently aired ABC episodes of
20/20. It features Barbara Walters as she interviews the families of
young transgender children. It is amazingly unbiased, sensitive, and
well done. Have your kleenex handy...."
Watch Video - part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utpam0IGYac
Watch Video - part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F9CaPyQz8
Watch Video - part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W17z6KeiNY
Watch Video - part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSkQlWUX_eI
Watch Video - part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib_yE5WILJc
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: Laura91 on March 19, 2008, 07:07:24 PM
Post by: Laura91 on March 19, 2008, 07:07:24 PM
I saw this when it originally aired, It was very good.
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: tinkerbell on March 20, 2008, 10:22:05 PM
Post by: tinkerbell on March 20, 2008, 10:22:05 PM
I also watched it the day it aired, and I have the videos posted somewhere (just for us or videos boards, I am not sure)
I think it is wonderfully done, and all the three stories are very touching. But who knows...Natasha...there are those out there who think or imply that a child could not possibly know her true gender at age three (Jazmin's story). or perhaps I am simply being "paranoid".. ::)
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I think it is wonderfully done, and all the three stories are very touching. But who knows...Natasha...there are those out there who think or imply that a child could not possibly know her true gender at age three (Jazmin's story). or perhaps I am simply being "paranoid".. ::)
tink :icon_chick:
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: Natasha on March 21, 2008, 05:17:42 PM
Post by: Natasha on March 21, 2008, 05:17:42 PM
Quote from: Tink on March 20, 2008, 10:22:05 PM
..there are those out there who think or imply that a child could not possibly know her true gender at age three (Jazmin's story). or perhaps I am simply being "paranoid".. ::)
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ha ha ha ha who are those people? how can they be so sure that this doesn't happen if they haven't experienced it first hand? i don't listen to stupid people tink & you shouldn't either.
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: Cindi Jones on March 22, 2008, 02:38:21 AM
Post by: Cindi Jones on March 22, 2008, 02:38:21 AM
It was that thought that is the earliest thing that I can remember from my youngest age. Yup. I don't know how old I was... it could have been two. But I'm sure it was no later than three years old.
Cindi
Cindi
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: lady amarant on March 22, 2008, 06:22:03 AM
Post by: lady amarant on March 22, 2008, 06:22:03 AM
I finally had the chance to sit down and watch these this morning. Thank you for posting it for us Natasha.
I felt so sorry for Riley. She was so very, very sad.
I felt so sorry for Riley. She was so very, very sad.
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: tinkerbell on March 22, 2008, 10:24:41 PM
Post by: tinkerbell on March 22, 2008, 10:24:41 PM
Quote from: Cindi Jones on March 22, 2008, 02:38:21 AM
It was that thought that is the earliest thing that I can remember from my youngest age. Yup. I don't know how old I was... it could have been two. But I'm sure it was no later than three years old.
Cindi
Same here angel without wings! I was three years old, and I told my mom that I was a girl and that I wanted to wear a dress just like Jenny's (my cousin). Of course, my statement took her by surprise, and it was the beginning of this agony which we call GID. Memories, memories, memories...always beautiful and yet...
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Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: Sandra Ts on July 08, 2009, 05:10:05 PM
Post by: Sandra Ts on July 08, 2009, 05:10:05 PM
very interesting show
Sandra Ts
Sandra Ts
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: heatherrose on July 08, 2009, 09:03:24 PM
Post by: heatherrose on July 08, 2009, 09:03:24 PM
Quote from: Matilda on July 08, 2009, 08:16:58 PMTherefore, all this "no, you couldn't have known that young & blah, blah, blah.." is pure BS.
This is the second time that I have unsuccessfully tried to watch this program
to the end without breaking down. Why is it so painful to watch. My heart goes
out to these babies. Here I am well into transition and nearly four decades
removed from that place in my life but it hurts like it was today.
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: LordKAT on July 09, 2009, 12:13:37 PM
Post by: LordKAT on July 09, 2009, 12:13:37 PM
I cried but also got very angry. the anger is because I was born way too early for any possibility of saying anything to anyone. I had to suffer in silence. I am glad they (the kids) are able to get something for support and not the total rejection I dealt with. Too much I in this posting but not trying to be only about me. Just the only place I can be me.
I hope I never have the bias I see in so many people when it comes to accepting others.
I hope I never have the bias I see in so many people when it comes to accepting others.
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: heatherrose on July 09, 2009, 12:28:21 PM
Post by: heatherrose on July 09, 2009, 12:28:21 PM
Quote from: LordKAT on July 09, 2009, 12:13:37 PM...I was born way too early for any possibility of saying anything to anyone. I had to suffer in silence.
Sweety, the tell someone route wasn't all that great either.
First it was, "It's just a phase you'll grow out of it."
Then after that idea gets flushed it's,
"WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU"
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: LordKAT on July 09, 2009, 12:36:34 PM
Post by: LordKAT on July 09, 2009, 12:36:34 PM
or "its all in your head" I did tell a person or 2 but learned my lesson early on.
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: heatherrose on July 09, 2009, 12:44:13 PM
Post by: heatherrose on July 09, 2009, 12:44:13 PM
Yup, and they told two friends and they told two friends
and so on and so on...
and so on and so on...
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: FairyGirl on July 09, 2009, 12:45:16 PM
Post by: FairyGirl on July 09, 2009, 12:45:16 PM
These children, and especially Jazz, were a great inspiration to me when I finally decided I could do this. They are amazing and on my personal list of heroes.
I had those cursed feelings as far back as age 4, which is pretty much as far back as I can remember anything. In my household then however it was God's way or the highway, literally. Unfortunately "god's way" included serious physical abuse to insure conformity. I can understand that profound sadness; I lived with it my entire life.
I had those cursed feelings as far back as age 4, which is pretty much as far back as I can remember anything. In my household then however it was God's way or the highway, literally. Unfortunately "god's way" included serious physical abuse to insure conformity. I can understand that profound sadness; I lived with it my entire life.
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: ArleneTgirl on July 09, 2009, 12:48:26 PM
Post by: ArleneTgirl on July 09, 2009, 12:48:26 PM
When I first came out to my "now ex-friends", they said I was impulsive. Need I say more?
Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: heatherrose on July 09, 2009, 12:59:21 PM
Post by: heatherrose on July 09, 2009, 12:59:21 PM
Quote from: FairyGirl on July 09, 2009, 12:45:16 PMI had those cursed feelings as far back as age 4, which is pretty much as far back as I can remember.
I can remember being bathed in a sink. From that time, I have been the same person,
I had no concept of female or male all I knew is that I was just me. Didn't everyone act,
walk and talk this way? I guess not. Boys didn't want to play with me because
I acted like a girl and girls didn't want to play with because I acted like a girl.
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Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: ArleneTgirl on July 09, 2009, 01:09:18 PM
Post by: ArleneTgirl on July 09, 2009, 01:09:18 PM
Quote from: heatherrose on July 09, 2009, 12:59:21 PMOMG, I remember the sink thing as well.
I can remember being bathed in a sink. From that time, I have been the same person,
I had no concept of female or male all I knew is that I was just me. Didn't everyone act,
walk and talk this way? I guess not. Boys didn't want to play with me because
I acted like a girl and girls didn't want to play with because I acted like a girl.
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Title: Re: "My Secret Self" (2007)
Post by: FairyGirl on July 09, 2009, 04:31:25 PM
Post by: FairyGirl on July 09, 2009, 04:31:25 PM
don't remember a sink exactly, but I do remember a washtub on the back porch (rural Georgia lol)