Trying And Acheiving Are Two Different Things.

I've Never Told Anyone This, In An Effort To Run From My Past And Disguise It, I Got Rid Of All Of The Scrapbooks My Mother Kept Going Back To When I Was A Baby. Truly. So That's Why Whenever Talk Show Hosts Or A Producer Asks For These Pictures, There Are Barely Any. My Sister Had A Few, But That's It, And This Was Before Digital. I've Never Told Anyone That, But That's The Truth.

I'm Conflicted. On One Hand, I Don't Want To Say That Because You Were A Man And Now You're A Woman, You Can't Be In A Women's Fashion Show. But I Feel It's A Dicey Issue. The Fact Of The Matter Is, When You Are Transgender - If You Go, Say, Male To Female - You're Not Having Your Pelvis Broken And Having It Expanded Surgically. You Still Have The Anatomical Bone Structure Of A Man.

I Will Always Be There In The Wings Saying, 'you Need To Be Good To People. You Need To Take Your Work Seriously. You Need To Have Integrity. You Need To Work With What You've Got.

I Would Say This To My Students All The Time, It's About 30% You As The Teacher And 70% About Them. They Tend To Think That Their Role Is To Be The Baby Bird In A Nest And You're Going To Feed Them? They're Going To Feed Themselves, Or They're Going To Starve.

If I Think About Most Of America, And Maybe I'm Terribly Wrong...but I Think Most Of America Would Say That They're Not In Favor Of Gay Marriage. But There Is Certainly A Large Cohort, Not A Majority But A Large Number Of People, Who Are Articulate And Vocal And They'd Rally Behind This. They're Making Their Opinion Known.