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Transsexual film-maker Kimberly Reed wows America with Prodigal Sons

Started by Butterfly, February 06, 2010, 08:09:22 PM

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Butterfly

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


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.
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Allamakee

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

''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
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Shana A

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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Allamakee

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

Remarkable doc captures family's joust with trans, gay, and mental health issues
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