Dr. David Niver (right) shares a laugh with Dr. Judson Lively. Niver suspected his colleague was transgendered.
Posted on 03/16/2005 12:58:07 PM PST by SmithL
Dr. Judson Lively, a surgeon and one of Kaiser Permanente's leading Bay Area administrators, stood nervously before 100 colleagues in a Walnut Creek conference room Tuesday and told them it was no accident there were butterflies on his black tie.
Lively told them a fable that was in essence the story of his life, of being trapped inside the body of another, yearning for a transformation to be set free.
"I stand here before you today to inform you of something that I have kept hidden from the world and virtually everyone else, with the exception of my family, for virtually my entire life," Lively, flanked by his wife and daughter, told the hushed crowd. "I'm 48 years old. For over 40 years I have known that I am a transsexual woman. My heart and soul really are those of a woman."
In two weeks, the surgeon will return to work as Dr. Judy Lively, physician-in-chief for more than 350,000 Kaiser patients, 550 doctors and 6, 000 staff in most of Contra Costa County and part of Alameda County. She will trade her ties for scarves, wear subtle makeup and handmade beaded jewelry, and finally let her hair down.
Lively is shedding the male persona she once worked so hard to cultivate -- Army surgeon, skydiver, whitewater kayaker -- and will reemerge not as a new person but one who has always been there, hidden away. . . .
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"Male or female, always a doctor"
Not my doctor. My doctor knows the difference between men and women.
Well, if the good doctor always knew he was a woman why did he bother to get married and father a child and screw up two additional lives?
More crapola from the fruit-fly community. Why is this a news story? (never mind. I KNOW why.)
Sorry you shman, God doesn't make mistakes. Your a man.
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He always knew, but he married and fathered a child despite it?
Just what the world needs: a fat, bald, dumpy, self-obesessed, hopelessly screwy 48-year-old woman. Physician, heal thyself!
As my kids would say, "This is so gay."
He may have the ponytail but he also has man hands.
Seems like the "parts" were in place to father a child. What a selfish nutcase! (Maybe "nutcase" is a poor choice of terms)
He's the guy on the left.
*laugh* See if he wants to be a woman when he has to go through "that time of the month." Or labor!
Sorry, Lively. You're just a wannabe!
He contradicted himself.
*grin* Hey lively, get back in the kitchen and make me a pie.
What other healthy body parts can you amputate and still be considered sane?
Yep, something like that…
There's so much here I DON'T want to know, but I'm curious how this kind of switch is handled by the DMV, insurance companies, the IRS, Social Security Administration, etc.
I guess they could have a check-off box: "Have you changed your __address or __sex since your last bill?"
If he keeps the parts the cut off in surgery he can literally go "F" himself...
This is the part that bothers me. I think some (a very few) people are truly born different. Maybe you are a woman in a man's body. But for cryin' out loud, don't go ruining everyone else's life by getting married and having kids who now have to deal w/your personal issues.
Either get the operation before you bring other people into your mess or consider the life of the single, celibate, person as an honorable calling.
And when Dr. Lively returns, s/he will announce that the soul of a woman residing inside just happens to be a lesbian.
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