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Tales of a Transgender Tarheel
Life as a Trans Woman in the American South
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The Phoenix Rises (Part 10 — Reinvention and Dreams)
At the end of May, 2022 — I got a kick in the complacency, which, I think, we all need sometimes. My contract with the doctor I had served…
Angela Bridgman
Oct 21, 2022
The Phoenix Rises (Part 9 — A New Beginning)
So…in 2013…I began working in the capacity I still, to this day work. As an independent contractor doing medical billing and coding work…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 26, 2019
The Phoenix Rises (Part 8 — On The Move Again)
So, in 2011…I turned 40 years old. And for my fortieth birthday, my mother and I took a tip to Florida. This coincided with my nephew’s…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 24, 2019
The Phoenix Rises (Part 7 — Crash and Burn)
The internal war I had fought for twenty-five years had become externalized for the last six years…since I had come out, fully, in…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 19, 2019
The Phoenix Rises (Part 6 — Rebirth)
I moved to Austin, Texas in April of 2000. Because of the timing of this move, I was denied a vote in the Presidential Primary in 2000…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 17, 2019
The Phoenix Rises (Part 5, An Eventful Year)
So, 1999 really got off to a very eventful start, what with the passage of Fairness in Louisville, a new job, a convention, and the death…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 17, 2019
The Phoenix Rises (Part 4 — Loss and Grief)
In 1998, I was denied a college education because I am transgender. I had gone to Sullivan College (now Sullivan University) — in…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 12, 2019
The Phoenix Rises (Part 3 — Activism)
I moved to Louisville, Kentucky in the summer of 1997. I am not clear on the exact date anymore, but I believe it was in mid-late June. My…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 9, 2019
The Phoenix Rises (Part 2 — Stepping Out)
So we are now up to my twenty third year. I had just survived my second and final suicide attempt, and my engagement to my fiancee, Kim…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 8, 2019
The Phoenix Rises (Part 1 — The Beginning)
The pain of being transgender just never ends. Some days, I don’t even want to go on living any more and I just wish something would…
Angela Bridgman
Apr 5, 2019
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