Long road to acceptance for man who became woman

Julian Guthrie, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, May 8, 2010

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/07/DD2L1D8NVH.DTL

He was a family man and a guy's guy, running companies and keeping the wife and kids in million-dollar homes. He collected cars, souped up his pickup truck and wore diamondback snakeskin cowboy boots when riding his Harley.

Then one day in 1997, he gathered his children near the family home in Kansas and delivered the news: He was going to transition into a she. It was something he had wanted for decades and could no longer suppress.

That was wonderful, think I'm going to cry.