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Title: Asheville's transgender community speaks
Post by: Shana A on April 30, 2008, 08:01:58 AM
Asheville's transgender community speaks

Lisa Gillespie • published April 30, 2008 12:15 am

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/NEWS01/80429171 (http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/NEWS01/80429171)

ASHEVILLE – At age 8, Holly Boswell decided she had magic powers.

Her mother had given Holly a Peter Pan book, and she fixated on the character of Tinkerbell. Holly was then a little boy, but she had been questioning her gender identity since age 2 or 3, she said. "I was thinking to myself, What am I — a fairy?"

Only much later did she find another word for herself: Transgendered.
Title: Asheville's transgender community speaks
Post by: Natasha on April 30, 2008, 05:34:16 PM
Asheville's transgender community speaks

Link (http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/NEWS01/80429171)
4/30/2008

"ASHEVILLE – At age 8, Holly Boswell decided she had magic powers.

Her mother had given Holly a Peter Pan book, and she fixated on the
character of Tinkerbell. Holly was then a little boy, but she had been
questioning her gender identity since age 2 or 3, she said. "I was
thinking to myself, What am I — a fairy?"