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Once a Pariah, Now a Judge: The Early Transgender Journey of Phyllis Frye
NYTimes ^ | August 29, 2015 | DEBORAH SONTAGAUG

Posted on 08/29/2015 12:17:25 PM PDT by Steelfish

Once a Pariah, Now a Judge: The Early Transgender Journey of Phyllis Frye By DEBORAH SONTAGAUG. 29, 2015 Photo

Phyllis Randolph Frye, the nation's first openly transgender judge, in her office in Houston last month. In her private practice, she devotes herself to transgender clients. Credit Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York HOUSTON — Nearly four decades before Caitlyn Jenner introduced herself to the world, Phyllis Randolph Frye came out as a transgender woman in a far less glamorous way. No Diane Sawyer, no Vanity Fair.

It was the summer of 1976. As Bruce Jenner, 26, was celebrating his decathlon victory at the Montreal Olympics, Phillip Frye, 28, was admitting defeat in suppressing his gender identity. He, becoming she, had already lost a lot: He had been forced to resign from the military for “sexual deviation.” He had been disowned by his parents, divorced by his first wife and separated from his son. He had been dismissed from several engineering jobs.

Now, with the encouragement of his second wife, Trish, he was starting to transition and wanted to be forthright. Going door to door, he distributed letters to advise the community that the neighbor formerly known as Phil — the husband, father and born-again Christian; the former Eagle Scout, Texas A & M University cadet and Army lieutenant — was going to start living full time as Phyllis.

In response, she got her house egged, her tires slashed, and her driveway spray-painted with obscenities. Teenagers openly mocked her, the engineering profession blackballed her and the federal government rejected her for a job because of her “desire to impersonate the opposite sex.”

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1 posted on 08/29/2015 12:17:25 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Anyone else get the impression, that the media is feeding us a lot of stories about the “T” or transwhatever, part of “LGBT” people???

So what’s going on? Now that we have nationwide homosexual marriage, we are moving down the list from the “LG” lesbian/gay end of sexually confused people, down to the “T” end of things?? Is this why they have been pushing the Bruce Jenner story so much??? Is this why ESPN gave Bruce Jenner some half assed award?????


2 posted on 08/29/2015 12:19:35 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

theyre preparing us for the fact that Barack....is about to announce that he was formerly Barrackette!!

and thats why they faked the birth certificate


3 posted on 08/29/2015 12:22:29 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You are absolutely right on! This is how it started with the fags too.


4 posted on 08/29/2015 12:23:05 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Even if you support this kind of thing, surely anyone would find it strangely intrusive to go door to door throughout the community distributing flyers about your own personal business.


5 posted on 08/29/2015 12:24:37 PM PDT by Burkean (.)
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To: Steelfish

Same crap, different day. And we’re supposed to feel sorry this idiot got his house egged 40 years ago . . .


6 posted on 08/29/2015 12:24:57 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Steelfish

Yet another freak posing as a “judge”.


7 posted on 08/29/2015 12:26:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And they’re like 1/100000 of a percent of the population? And we’re supposed to turn every aspect of our civilization upside down for them?


8 posted on 08/29/2015 12:32:31 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Steelfish

Best line in this lengthy mess of advocacy journalism: “Her son declined to be interviewed.” At least everyone in the family is not mentally ill.


9 posted on 08/29/2015 12:33:57 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: MeshugeMikey

My first though was Michael to Michelle


10 posted on 08/29/2015 12:44:11 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Read my lips: no more Bushes)
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To: Steelfish

One can rely on the media consistently championing the aberrant and abnormal.


11 posted on 08/29/2015 12:45:29 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: Steelfish

openly transgender

I don’t get this. How can one be openly transgender?

By the way, all of my salary reviews describe me as being ‘openly heterosexual’...


12 posted on 08/29/2015 12:46:54 PM PDT by Paisan
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To: madprof98

Assuming the story is even true.


13 posted on 08/29/2015 12:48:53 PM PDT by darkangel82
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14 posted on 08/29/2015 12:50:20 PM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: hoosiermama

hmmm we never have seen Its Birth Certificate have we??


15 posted on 08/29/2015 12:50:34 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It is to remove Reason and Logic from children to reduce them to rutting animals (tribal, collective Minds), incapable of critical thinking and understanding Individualism (identity) and Natural law Theory-—basis of US Constitution and the Age of Reason and Christian Worldview (to flip Good and Evil and make slavery (vice) normal for the NWO).

Cultural Marxists like Gramsci/Lukacs/Adorno knew to destroy Virtue in children and habituate Vice and evil desires (Sex Ed) in children (an evil worldview at looking at others as objects for sex and lust only) is the easiest way to collapse a civil society. Sexual license always leads to slavery and chaos which creates a vacuum for government to step in-—since all biological relationships are destroyed.

All this emasculization and homosexualization of our boys and the de-feminization of girls-—to make them kill their own genetic offspring, is planned-—and sexualization of children (to destroy sexual morality formation by promoting evil, dysfunctional, irrational uses of the body which destroys Truth/God and Virtue will collapse culture.

Destroying Natural Instincts in children is what TV is all about——controlling and creating artificial, emotions-—normalizing the irrational. What children “see” becomes “normal” and good and the exposure 24/7 is to make sure the vile ideas are posited in the minds of young children to warp their perceptions of male/female and destroy normal sexual identity formation (and Common Sense and Wisdom-—necessary for Rule of Law).

It comes from Fichte/Wundt (1810) (German psychology) to destroy the Christian Worldview and destroy “Free Will” in children and make them so irrational, they will believe “snow is black” and be so ignorant they will be “happy Slaves” of the State....without the need for jails and prisons and an army. The kids raised in such irrational vile cultures (like the homosexual Weimar Republic) will only be capable of Hitler Youth “minds”-—just “group thinkers controlled by their masters (elites)..


16 posted on 08/29/2015 12:51:47 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Paisan

I mean if this really is all Phillip/Phyllis is cracking this up to be, he should now be in nirvana and shouldn’t be even caring. I am a she, I am Phyllis, end of story. Even the nuts of yesteryear had more satisfaction in their nuttiness, they did not constantly point out how they had once been sane but now are proud to be crazy.


17 posted on 08/29/2015 12:52:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: hoosiermama
the Judges kid looked worried..and a tad confused... even before dad's "changer




18 posted on 08/29/2015 12:54:11 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Steelfish
Why does every transgender seem to look like an ugly old hag?

I mean, I could almost see the point of it if a man could transform himself into a beautiful woman. But it never works out that way. They either end up looking like Janet Reno or Robert Plant - recent Robert Plant.

Why even bother?

19 posted on 08/29/2015 12:58:25 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
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To: Steelfish

Still a Pariah in my book.


20 posted on 08/29/2015 12:59:37 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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