Saturday, Nov 20, 2010 14:01 ET
I always knew I was a girl
For decades I struggled in a male body that felt painful and false. At 53, I finally began my transition
By Elena Kelly
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/11/20/how_i_became_a_woman/index.htmlI was born in 1955 at the Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers in Denver and put up for adoption eight days later. The couple who took me a few months later had no idea what they were in for. They were farmers, living on a homestead halfway between Denver and the Kansas border.
I have always known I was a girl. If you've read anything about transsexual people, you have heard those words before. In that little house on the prairie I remember dressing up in my mother's satiny nightgowns and wearing her lovely church hats as she snapped photos of her cute little boy. She thought I was darling, and I was sure I would grow up to be just like her.
