I've lived as a man & a woman -- here's what I learned | Paula Stone Williams | TEDxMileHigh
If you're a man, at one point or another you've probably thought to yourself, “I will never understand women!” And if you're a woman, “what's wrong with men?
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Translator: Leonardo Silva Reviewer: Ellen Maloney I was the CEO of a large religious nonprofit, the host of a national television show. I preached in mega churches. I was a successful, well-educated, white American male. The poet and mystic Thomas Merton said, "It's a difficult thing to climb to the top of the ladder of success only to realize when you get there that your ladder has been leaning against the wrong wall." (Laughter) I knew from the time was three or four years of age I was transgender. In my naivety, I thought I got to choose. I thought a gender fairy would arrive and say, "Okay, the time has come!" But alas, no gender fairy arrived, so I just lived my life. I didn't hate being a boy. I just knew I wasn't one. I went to college, g...
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Translator: Leonardo Silva Reviewer: Ellen Maloney I was the CEO of a large religious nonprofit, the host of a national television show. I preached in mega churches. I was a successful, well-educated, white American male. The poet and mystic Thomas Merton said, "It's a difficult thing to climb to the top of the ladder of success only to realize when you get there that your ladder has been leaning against the wrong wall." (Laughter) I knew from the time was three or four years of age I was transgender. In my naivety, I thought I got to choose. I thought a gender fairy would arrive and say, "Okay, the time has come!" But alas, no gender fairy arrived, so I just lived my life. I didn't hate being a boy. I just knew I wasn't one. I went to college, g...
