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Hello, my name is William King. And today for Bizarre Productions Newsfilm,
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we are going to explore for a few minutes, the world of the transsexual.
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Much has been discussed about this controversial subject,
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but very few people have had the opportunity to get actual first-hand information,
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which we are going to do today.
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Sitting beside me here is Mr. Jimmy Michaels who is an admitted transsexual.
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It was Mr. Michael's expressed desire to discuss some of the actualities
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and some of the myths of transsexuality,
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thereby shedding a new light on the subject that has been kept out of the public's eye for some time.
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This interview is completely unrehearsed and is presented
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so that you will have a better understanding of the world of the transsexual.
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Mr. Michaels, just what is a transsexual?
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[Michaels:] Transsexual is one who desires to be the opposite sex, either female to male or male to female.
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[King:] Can you tell us something about your background? Where you were born. Something about your parents.
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Your first discovery that you were different.
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[Michaels:] Well, I was born in Europe, because my father being in the military,
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and as a child was very effeminate,
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preferring to play with girls' toys better than with boys' and enjoying their company to boys.
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I didn't go in for the outdoor sports, as baseball, football, things like that.
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I would prefer to stay inside or to read and
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the more effeminate qualities, I guess. And my parents noticed it about the age of six.
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[King:] Tell me do you consider yourself a male or a female?
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[Michaels:] Hmm, it's pretty hard to say.
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Mentally, female. I think, most of the time, the majority of the time, as a female. I would act as a female.
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But then the other percentage when I'm caught off guards and in the depressed state,
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you don't know which is which, so therefore you try to be more masculine,
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to please society, to make more of acceptance to oneself.
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Are you going to have the complete operation?
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Well, that's my intended purpose to... to change.
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Being a transsexual, that's their purpose or their goal, usually,
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to have the operation.
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[King:] Which do you enjoy most, the company of men or women?
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That's difficult to say, because I enjoy
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women's company, not to the degree of a romantic interest, but as for sharing
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interests of doing things together, you know, around a house, or
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common interest in the theater or things like that. Then I enjoy,
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you know, female company. And usually women are more apt to accept me than men.
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[Michaels:] But on a bait, on a whole, I enjoy men's company,
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to the degree that it makes me feel good to be around them.
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[King:] Mmm-hmm. Have you ever had any desire for physical relationship with a female?
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None whatsoever. Never has entered my mind. [King laughs]
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[King:] Do you consider yourself a homosexual?
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Well, if I were a homosexual, that would throw out the complete
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belief in me being a transsexual, because the homosexual desires
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men, and they have no desire to be women, or to be treated as women.
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A lot of them mock women. It's making fun of. [King:] Yes.
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[Michaels:] But they have no real desire to be treated, or to actually be women. [King:] Mmm-hmm.
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[King:] I presume you have fallen in love. Can you tell us about, a little about the first time that that happened?
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If anyone knows what love is. I really don't know.
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It was, it may have been just mere infatuation, but I've gone the
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route, the road twice, I guess.
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Each time with someone who's completely basically straight. And each time, you know, disastrous ending.
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As it can be.
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[King:] And then I take it that most of your friends would be women. But,
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considering the friends that you have, what do they think about your desire to be a complete woman?
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[Michaels:] Most my friends, you know, except me - the majority are straight or in the so-called straight world.
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A lot of them are trying to help me with different, you know,
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viewpoints, different things. You know, to look at both sides instead of just
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featuring one road and you know, each angle. They try to help me with.
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[King:] Do any of them try to talk you out of it?
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I've had a few who have -
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not out here, back East, a few were trying to persuade me not to do it. That it was no need.
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I usually ignore them. Sometimes it would upset me and
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send me into a tremor to my psychiatrist but
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usually I just ignore them.
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[King:] But those who have tried to talk you out of it, be male or female?
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Uh, it's about equal, I guess. There've been males and there've been females.
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Usually the males who, who've tried to talk me out of it are
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completely involved with me, as to where, you know, they,
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their masculinity is threatened. So therefore they put up this defense,
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get rid of the blockage there.
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[King:] You mentioned the psychiatrist. How has your decision affected you mentally?
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It's quite a - well, people think LSD is a trip, they should try taking hormones. [King laughs]
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Now that is really a trip. Because one moment you're full, you know,
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of vitality and, you know, you're sure of what you want.
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And then the next moment you can be completely depressed,
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and then you, you know, you think, "why am I doing this?
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What good is it gonna do?"
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[King:] Mm-hmm. [Michaels:] It's like a merry-go-round. It's up and down, you know, it's...
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[King:] Well among the people who are not particular friends, acquaintances.
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How does the, the straight person of your own age treat you?
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[Michaels:] The ones that I'm not in contact with, usually the ones who are the hecklers on the street are usually,
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either they say, "What is it?" Or if they know, you know, they can be obscene.
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Youngsters have a tendency to be very cruel. [King:] I guess. [Michaels:] Yeah even in their
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school, which - I remember in school, they can be very cruel to people who
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have less than they do. And I used - would sit back and watch
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this, this barbarism, I guess it would be called. Because it is what it is, you know.
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[King:] Mmm-hmm. [Michaels:] They have to pick on one person. They
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set them out to, for their little games, their little party games.
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[King:] Would you encourage anybody else to go through the physical ordeals that you've experienced?
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Uh, definitely not.
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They'd have to be out of their mind, I think, or either, you know, very into it.
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How have the female hormones affected you physically?
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Well, it's a lot it does for you. A lot of women are taking them now too.
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It decreases in amount the growth of hair on the face and
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the features become softer, more feminine. The skin texture changes.
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[King:] Mmm-hmm. [Michaels:] The growth of the pubic hairs also changes.
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Hair elsewhere on the body slows down.
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And what doesn't stop growing turns white eventually.
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And the hair on your head grows thicker and faster, also.
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[King:] Mm-hmm.
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[King:] What do you intend to do after you've had the complete operation?
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That's a good question. It's like starting all over again, I guess,
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like being reborn.
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Mmm-hmm.
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[Michaels:] I have intentions probably of like, every girl, I guess, of getting married someday.
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I can't have children but there's always the possibility of adopting them.
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And, you know, living in someplace in suburbia, you know, this type thing,
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which at the moment doesn't appeal to me very much but that's what I hope to do.
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[King:] Hmm. Tell me, do you prefer wearing women's clothes?
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Mmm, that's a good question.
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Women's, per say, you mean dresses?
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[King:] You know, dresses, bras, panties, the silk hose, or nylon hose? Girdles?
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I hate nylons. I hate girdles. I do not like to wear bras.
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I don't necessarily like to wear dresses except now and then, I get this
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mad urge to, you know, do the town. You know, really doll up and everything, you know, this type thing.
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But I really have no craving to flaunt, you know, with the makeup. Which I don't like makeup.
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You know, spending two hours in the beauty salon, which is a complete waste of time to me.
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To me, femininity or a woman does not, is not expressed in, you know, wearing a silk dress
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or nylons or having her hair done twice a week at the nearest beauty salon or,
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you know, the whole frilly bit. It's from withinside. If you don't have it withinside, no matter what you put on,
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you know, on the outside, it's not gonna come through.
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[King:] Have you any opinions on the styles today?
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It's the greatest time to be born for fashion, I think, because it's,
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you know, they, the women are slowly getting out of [...] of the silk dresses,
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and the nylons, and the bras, and the girdles, the whole bit.
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You know, more the natural look is coming through. The natural beauty.
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[King:] Now here's a rather important question. What are you going to do about your name?
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Well that can be changed legally and it's no problem about that.
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I'm gonna take my grandmother's name.
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[King:] Oh, you've already chosen one?
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[Michaels:] Yeah. [King, laughing:] Oh well that, that saves going through a list of girls names for it.
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Yeah. But, you know, even if my name was still, you know, what it is now,
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like femininity is not in a name either.
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[King:] Mmm-hmm. True, true. [Michaels:] I think Shakespeare said that once.
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[King:] Or something close to it. [Michaels:] Yeah.
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[King:] How do you feel about society today?
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Well, like society was 200 years ago, 500 years ago. It's pretty well screwed up.
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[King:] [laughs] I guess we'll all agree with that one.
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