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Katy Tur shares her reaction to her father coming out as transgender
Yahoo News ^ | June 12, 2022 | Megan Johnson

Posted on 06/12/2022 2:38:22 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes

Katy Tur is opening up about her tumultuous childhood, and her reaction to her father coming out as transgender.

The NBC News correspondent, who is the daughter of legendary Los Angeles broadcasters Zoey (formerly Bob) Tur and Marika Gerrard, sat down with CBS Sunday Morning to share her experience.

Growing up, the broadcaster believed her parents, who were known for reporting the news from their helicopter, were "the coolest people in the world." Tur shared that she even "knew how to fly a helicopter" as a kid.

"It was a really unique and interesting childhood that nobody else had," said Tur, 38, who chronicles her experience in her new memoir, Rough Draft.

However, she also witnessed her parents' struggles up close. In 2013, Tur received a phone call from her father during which he told her that he was transgender.

"My dad said, 'I am a woman.' And I said, 'what?' And my dad said, 'I am a woman. I am transitioning,'" Tur recalled. "I'm going to become a woman."

Tur said she was at first "puzzled" by the announcement, replying, "You've got to be joking. Are you kidding? What are you talking about?"

"My dad was adamant," she continued. "'I'm the wrong person. I'm going to become the right person. Don't you see this is why I've been so angry?' It was a lot."

Tur...said her father would experience "fits of anger" when she was younger, and would become "abusive." She added that they did not get the police involved because to do so would hurt her father's career and ability to provide for the family.

"Something would set him off, and he would get so, so out of control that he would throw his fist through a wall," recalled Tur, who sat with her mother during the interview.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who cares? Actually who cares about any of it. Just shut up already.


21 posted on 06/12/2022 2:50:32 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! S Matter)
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To: Tired of Taxes

I guess her dad is a Poof Tur?


22 posted on 06/12/2022 2:52:46 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: Tired of Taxes
"My dad said, 'I am a woman.' And I said, 'what?' And my dad said, 'I am a woman. I am transitioning,'" Tur recalled. "I'm going to become a woman."

It would have been funny if she responded, "I always thought you were a pussy dad".

23 posted on 06/12/2022 2:53:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Summary: Her father has metal problems and now she has to deal with it. Good point is that she’s in the “elite” class, which gives her so, so many examples of other folks with a whole lot of mental problems.


24 posted on 06/12/2022 2:55:13 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Tired of Taxes

If Katy was areal correspondent, she would say my dad has a mental problem and needs help. But that won’t happen. Evidently she doesn’t “follow the science” either.


25 posted on 06/12/2022 2:55:49 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Tired of Taxes

Ugh what BS. Too bad they don’t treat people for gender desphoria anymore her father needs it


26 posted on 06/12/2022 2:56:56 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Tired of Taxes

Dear God. My parents were from The Greatest Generation. Born in 1916 and ‘17 none of this was conceivable to them. How is it it’s normal and mainstream now? My Mom died in 2018 and even then, it wasn’t yet mainstream. I don’t even recall this craziness then. What the heck has happened?


27 posted on 06/12/2022 2:57:00 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
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To: samiam5

Lol!


28 posted on 06/12/2022 2:57:07 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Sodomy is nothing to be proud of.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

I have never heard of a single person mentioned in that article.


29 posted on 06/12/2022 2:58:13 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Tired of Taxes

She might try loving Jesus and “hating” her father.


30 posted on 06/12/2022 3:00:49 PM PDT by nicollo (the rule of law is not arbitrary)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Reminds me of the movie Real Men with Jim Belushi, his character’s father was Trans and it was pretty funny. Had John Ritter in it also.


31 posted on 06/12/2022 3:01:28 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Tired of Taxes

Does Wayne really give a Damn, she gave Trump a hard time.


32 posted on 06/12/2022 3:02:04 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Tired of Taxes

Been milking this for almost 10 years. Guess it’s the only talent the family has.


33 posted on 06/12/2022 3:02:43 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: srmanuel

...okay, so I must be a troglodyte or something, but who is Katy Tur and why should I give a rat’s a** about anything associated with her...(I assume it is a her.....)...


34 posted on 06/12/2022 3:07:44 PM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: Tired of Taxes

“I am going to become a woman.”
To which I respond, “OK. What is a woman?”


35 posted on 06/12/2022 3:10:23 PM PDT by Restless
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To: Tired of Taxes

professional pervert...


36 posted on 06/12/2022 3:13:10 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: TokarevM57

The best I can remember is she is an NBC correspondent, super liberal, etc....what better story could there be, super liberal female reporter has father who is transitioning to a woman.

It’s so insane it’s really hard to believe.


37 posted on 06/12/2022 3:13:23 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Tired of Taxes

Serious question: Why are so many of these transgender folks Jewish? Is there a biological or genetic reason for it, or is it some sort of cultural or social thing? The same seems to be true of standard-issue homosexuality too — more prevalent among Jews than gentiles. Or are Jews just more willing — or eager — to proclaim their sexual peculiarities?


38 posted on 06/12/2022 3:18:48 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Katy Tur says, “Pay attention to meeeeeeeeee!”


39 posted on 06/12/2022 3:19:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Look at us! We're a family full of attention whores!

40 posted on 06/12/2022 3:20:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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