Liz in Watermark: Mission: Transition; an interview with Gina Duncan
I had never met a transgender person before I met Gina Duncan, at least not to my knowledge. Humans aren't peacocks, announcing their gender so definitively that you always know what's going on under their jeans, Dockers, pencil skirt or what have you. I was interviewing Gina for Watermark , about her 2007 gender transition and the first thing I noticed was that she was far more put together than I was. Granted, I had had a tough week, but we all have tough weeks, but you should never show up in Thornton Park looking like it. In a society so glued to the status quo that it failed to adopt the metric system, changing things isn't always that easy and changing sexes is especially difficult, socially, psychologically and physically. Gina's approach to the extraordinary step she took - a modest-yet-ironclad determination to improve her life - is genuinely inspiring. So I hope you'll read and enjoy Mission: Trans...