Have you listened to her?   I haven't watched any videos of her in a long time.  There's a big difference in the way she's questioned by Joe Pyne in 1966, and by Gary Collins sometime in the early 1980s, but her answers are always very self assured and honest.  She was a great woman, and I think we gained so much because she made her life so public.

April Ashley

Another great woman from my home town of Liverpool, and my family lived next door to Alder Hay Hospital

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley

I like this woman, she screams smart, confident and everything I want to be.

Thanks for posting this Kathy she was such an amazing woman.

Christine was the only star shining in a back sky in the 1960s and without her to set my course by it is doubtful that I would have survived. Her triumph was my triumph (and many others) when we were so few and there was no charted path and although I was never 'out' as publicly as she, she was my model of grace and dignity in facing such an unusual dilemma. God bless her!

I remember watching a Pathe news short film of Roberta Cowell in a car race in the summer of 1973.At last I learned there were others like me and I wasn't alone and it would be possible to live as a woman

Thanks for sharing that Kathy!! she was definatly the trailblazer in tg/ts history, and without her work I may not have had the courage to be myself, and may just have been a statistic.

Another good video is a documentary about Renee Richards who transitioned in 1975 and became a tennis pro.  It's amazing how much bigotry there was in sports in those days, and the comments from some of the sports broadcast personalities show the incredible depth of that pervasive bigotry.

I don't have a link to it, but it's on Netflix if anyone wants to watch it.  I remember how I felt for her as she struggled to play as a pro.  I was 25 or 26 at the time.