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Transition Radio Industries September 2012
Transition Radio Industries September 2012
Autumn Weisz was born in east Texas back in 1946, the offspring of a local member of a prestigious family and a Hungarian émigré. She quotes My mother, a Christian, was a musician and my father was Jewish. They met in postwar Chicago where my mother was a professional entertainer.
Growing up back in the ‘50’s there were no transgender role models. There was barely television and certainly no internet. I knew from day one that I was ‘different’ than everybody else but didn’t know why. And what 6-year old kid is going to ‘compare notes’ with their friends wondering if they felt the same way inside? I didn’t think I was crazy, but for God’s sake, I was 6! How did I know how other people felt, Looking back on the situation, though, at this point, I recall that most of my friends were girls even though I was extremely athletic and played in several team sports, excelling at little league baseball and football. We had a segregated elementary school of sorts with boys on one side and girls on the other. I just felt more comfortable and ‘closer’ to them than with the boys with whom I played sports.
I kept this pretty much under control while in school. I never really crossdressed and didn’t exactly date..
As the years progressed, though, I became increasingly angry toward my situation and I utterly despised my body. During my junior year in high school, I decided to go ahead and immerse myself fully into weight training just to get my mind off things as they were. And when football season began the very next year, I was ready. I had bulked myself into a 238-pound middle linebacker, who, when the season was all said and done, ended up as a third-team All-State selection. Andin Texas, that speaks volumes. I could’ve gone practically anywhere in the country to play football. I chose instead to put an end to all the crap I endured for so long.
The day I graduated and received my high school diploma, I went right down to my local United States Army recruiter and signed up for Viet Nam. I had all intentions of stopping a couple of bullets and coming home in a box. I just couldn’t deal with all the confusion and frustration any longer…
I’m stopping this narrative at this point. Obviously, God has an incredibly strange sense of humor, and I wasn’t killed in southeast Asia.
Growing up back in the ‘50’s there were no transgender role models. There was barely television and certainly no internet. I knew from day one that I was ‘different’ than everybody else but didn’t know why. And what 6-year old kid is going to ‘compare notes’ with their friends wondering if they felt the same way inside? I didn’t think I was crazy, but for God’s sake, I was 6! How did I know how other people felt, Looking back on the situation, though, at this point, I recall that most of my friends were girls even though I was extremely athletic and played in several team sports, excelling at little league baseball and football. We had a segregated elementary school of sorts with boys on one side and girls on the other. I just felt more comfortable and ‘closer’ to them than with the boys with whom I played sports.
I kept this pretty much under control while in school. I never really crossdressed and didn’t exactly date..
As the years progressed, though, I became increasingly angry toward my situation and I utterly despised my body. During my junior year in high school, I decided to go ahead and immerse myself fully into weight training just to get my mind off things as they were. And when football season began the very next year, I was ready. I had bulked myself into a 238-pound middle linebacker, who, when the season was all said and done, ended up as a third-team All-State selection. Andin Texas, that speaks volumes. I could’ve gone practically anywhere in the country to play football. I chose instead to put an end to all the crap I endured for so long.
The day I graduated and received my high school diploma, I went right down to my local United States Army recruiter and signed up for Viet Nam. I had all intentions of stopping a couple of bullets and coming home in a box. I just couldn’t deal with all the confusion and frustration any longer…
I’m stopping this narrative at this point. Obviously, God has an incredibly strange sense of humor, and I wasn’t killed in southeast Asia.
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