[Leica] IMG: B J Fadem

[Douglas Barry]

Excellent image, Richard! Keep it up.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 10:44 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: B J Fadem


> BJ Fadem
> B was born intersex. In those days, the usual recommendation was that it 
> is
> easier to remove bits, and “if you raise someone as a girl, they will be a
> girl” and so B was raised as a girl.  Even though B had the body of a
> football player, and indeed played at the high school’s football games
> somewhat clandestinely, he did not know that he was intersex until he was
> 19. It was then almost 20 years afterward that B finally transitioned when
> his body was becoming non-functioning, as his body was not producing 
> enough
> testosterone and was not producing any estrogen.
>
> B has a successful law practice and spends about 20% of his time doing pro
> bono work on children’s cases. He has many toys in the office and the rule
> is that they can play with the toys if they can reach them.
>
> Part of my "Hearts on Our Sleeves - portraits and stories of transgender
> people" project
>
> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20160717-Scanned-1623.jpg
>
>
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