Transsexual film-maker Kimberly Reed wows America with Prodigal Sons
The Guardian UK
By Paul Harris
07 February, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/07/kimberly-reed-prodigal-sons-transsexual (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/07/kimberly-reed-prodigal-sons-transsexual)
Paul McKerrow was an all-American boy. Raised in Helena, Montana, he was the quarterback for his high-school football team, which is as close to being idolised as many small-town Americans come.
He was also his class president, the valedictorian of his year in 1985 and voted most likely to succeed by his classmates. He was tall and ruggedly good-looking. McKerrow, in short, had it made and great things were expected of him.
So it was with some trepidation that McKerrow recently attended his 20-year high-school reunion as Kimberly Reed, a lesbian, New York-based film-maker who had had gender reassignment to become a woman.
Oprah features transgender lesbian filmmaker Kim Reed [video]
Metro Weekly (LGBT newspaper, Washington DC)
by Chey
February 11, 2010
http://www.metroweekly.com/news/last_word/2010/02/oprah-features-transgender-les.html (http://www.metroweekly.com/news/last_word/2010/02/oprah-features-transgender-les.html)
''I was this perfect guy in some ways, but I was just trying to overcompensate to be successful at this male thing... I thought it would fix me. I thought it would make this other crazy idea go away.... A lot of times, I wanted to be one of the girls more than to really have a girlfriend..."
NB: Oprah's website has more information: http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Filmmaker-Kimberly-Reeds-Transgender-Transition (http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Filmmaker-Kimberly-Reeds-Transgender-Transition)
links to Oprah's show also posted here https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,72441.msg494303.html#msg494303 (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,72441.msg494303.html#msg494303)
Coming Home
Gay City News (LGBT newspaper, New York City)
February 18, 2010
by Gary M. Kramer
http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2010/02/20/gay_city_news/arts/doc4b7dc9a887b63475761820.txt (http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2010/02/20/gay_city_news/arts/doc4b7dc9a887b63475761820.txt)
Remarkable doc captures family's joust with trans, gay, and mental health issues