I'm a fierce defender of the rights of transwomen, and a doughty opponent of anti-trans prejudice. Diana Thomas is a privileged trans woman, even though thats normally a contradiction in terms. That has nothing to do with trans people's rights, but it fuels the myth that trans women pose a threat to women born that way. She was referring to her husband Prince Charles ' affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, who he would go on to marry in 2005, eight years after Diana's death in a car crash in August 1997. "She had the premonition she would be killed or die not in a natural way," says Devorik in the documentary. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. [8], Thomas is a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club. They accepted the evidently female nature of my personal identity, and the undeniably masculine origins of my body. The love I felt for my family was and always will be true. So I do not regret my male life. Diana Thomas - Wikipedia Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 'My experience of coming out as transgender and living as a trans woman has overwhelmingly been one of kindness, acceptance, tolerance and well-wishing'. In the reasons why transvestism should be feared by the many, and desired by the few, lie many of masculinity's most delicate hidden secretssecrets that relate to all men, even if they've never, in their wildest nightmares, dreamed of wearing a dress.. 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Diana Thomas - Executive Coach and Advisor - LinkedIn Tina Turner in Using it to hold oneself up as being superior to others is something else. Diana is an Editorial Advisory Board member for Chief Learning Officer magazine, a faculty member for Media Tech's CLO Accelerator Class, a Board Member for the National Diversity Council, and a past member of Tri-City Family Services' Board of Directors and an Advisory Board Member for the American Council on Education. '[13], Her writing influences include Lee Child, Ian Fleming, and George Macdonald Fraser.[14]. Wake up one morning. Yes, its lovely, and its also perfectly normal. Shes not entirely privileged. This byline is for a different person with the same name. As it was impossible to get my surgery on the NHS during Covid, I had to go private. Bring it on! She attacks trans folk who dont have 40,000 because we make ones who do, like her, look bad. She has contributed to various publications including the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times in London. The correct term is now 'chestfeeding'. Youve got no idea. in Print Journalism at American University in Washington D.C. in 1988. Once again one should note the extreme fragility of masculinity in the face of any threat to its conventions., Transvestism is an unlikely mast upon which to fly the banner of men's liberation. aged 10 in 1969; right: David in But I also blub my eyes out to Strictly Come Dancing and I rather like the fact that I can do both of those things.. We do not, for instance, talk about her ex-wife (they were married for 30 years) or their three grown-up children; two daughters and a son (I promised I would not write or talk about them). It was all I could do not to give a triumphant fist-pump and a shout of: 'Yessss!!' Amazon.com: Diana Thomas: books, biography, latest update Now he is waving goodbye to his old male self. Opening my post recently, I came across an anonymous letter addressed to 'Mr Diana Thomas', and consisting of eight words, scrawled in black ink: 'Please stop writing your s**t in the . Becoming Diana a process that will not be acknowledged in law with a GRC (Gender Recognition Certificate) until she has lived as a woman for two years is the realisation of a dream that is all the more fulfilling, she believes, because of its timing. The direction of travel is constant. (LogOut/ Now that the scars from her facial surgery in November have healed she is finally ready at almost 62 to go fulltime as Diana. There are, it should be said, certain areas of Dianas past life that are not up for discussion. Now research is suggesting that hormonal issues in the womb can cause the disparity between mind and body, the 'gender incongruence', as it is now termed, that is at the heart of the trans experience. I saw voice therapists but did not work well with them. She spent 40,000 on hormones, laser, electrolysis, and coaching to feminise her face, hair, body and voice. You may type in a name if you don't have a Google id. Amazon.com: Thomas Diana: books, biography, latest update Learn how and when to remove this template message, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Salvatore Ferragamo: The Shoemaker of Dreams, Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas | PenguinRandomHouse.com", "The Devil Wears Herms (He Bought It at the Caesars Palace Mall in Las Vegas)", "Gods and Kings by Dana Thomas | PenguinRandomHouse.com", "Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas | PenguinRandomHouse.com", "Venice Film Festival 2020: Competition Light On Studios, Strong On Global Arthouse & Women Directors Full List", "Luca Guadagnino's Salvatore Ferragamo Documentary Snapped Up by Sony Pictures Classics", "Two Books Look Back at Fashion's Messy Choreography", title "Five Lessons about Self-Destruction All Creative People Should Know", title "'Gods and Kings,' by Dana Thomas - Review", "Gods and Kings is a Spectacular Work of Reconstruction", "Gods and Kings by Dana Thomas and Alexander McQueen by Andrew Wilson review brutally unsympathetic lives", 'Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano', by Dana Thomas - Review, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dana_Thomas&oldid=1104080514, This page was last edited on 12 August 2022, at 14:23.