Oh, Look at Who’s to Blame
Connecting the Dots to Charlotte Pride About the middle of May 2011, my friend Kathy Baldock invited me to be one of the directors for her recently registered non-profit, Canyonwalker Connections . She told me she had been praying for the right person to represent transgender persons and that my name kept coming to her mind. Kathy laughs when she recalls a conversation I had with her a while back and kids me about it. I told her I had this notion that after my surgery at the end of March of 2010, I hoped to simply live a life in quiet anonymity, flying under the radar, a private person who would not have to be talking about where I came from, that I had been a man. etc. Only my family and those who already knew me would know this about me. For everyone else, it was none of their business. She laughs when she points out that if that is what I envisioned, then I had obviously gone about it the wrong way. One doesn’t accept an invitation to address two-hundred people to tell t...