TransNation: Doubly Triggered

http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?ID=20271
9/11/2008

Ready to transition in the early 1980s, Freeman forced her
gender-identity and creative spirit back into the closet when she took
a position at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

"I realized that if I didn't focus, I could conceivably starve," she
explains. "[So], I made the decision to not only go in the closet in
1983 as a transsexual, [but] also... as an artist. I thought I was
really going to transition in 1982. I told my parents. I came out to
everybody—even at work. And then I had to live that down. It marked my
career. I stuck it out [but] it wasn't pleasant."