Leeza Gibbons Show 1995 My Husband Wears My Clothes

Effective 11/20/2020: Condemnation comments, religious based or not, will be deleted. I am what I am and I'm trans. I want what I want, I like what I like and so do you. I have no delusions. I have a genetically male modified body and choose to live in the feminine role because it makes me happy. Remember that little constitutional note about the pursuit of happiness? Don't knock it then. Fast forward to 2020. At the time we did the show I thought I was just a cross dresser. I wasn't quite 3 years old when I first wished I was a girl. By 5 years old I was borrowing mom's clothes terrified anyone would find out. No one did but I spent my entire childhood effectively alone and afraid in the dark with my secret. I didn't get fully dressed as Shirley until I met Virginia Prince in 1990. See her story at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgini.... She invited me to attend the monthly Alpha chapter meetings for heterosexual cross dressers. I did and was chronically depressed when I was not out as Shirley. It wasn't until the middle of 1997 that I finally realized I was not just a cross dresser. I had always really truly wanted to be female, just one of the girls, but that's impossible. So I got even more depressed and withdrew. With the exception of a few company Halloween contests I didn't dress up as Shirley and start going out monthly again until April of 2011. I was out as Shirley on March 15th of 2012 at a salon when it finally hit me. I was so very happy and felt so very comfortable in the feminine role and felt so accepted by everyone around me that suddenly the idea of going back to living in the masculine role was totally unacceptable and appalling to me. I didn't and I call it the 6 second transition. I hit the family wall like a crash car and it took about 4 months of hurt feelings, anger and heartache for everyone to settle down. I'm trans, trantastic in fact, and have been living as Shirley ever since, the happiest days of my life. I'm still married to my wife, Marie, and she'll assure you that she's not a lesbian just because I am. lol I appeared on the Leeza Gibbons Show about May of 1995 with 3 other cross dressers, one with his wife, my wife Marie and with my oldest daughter Leighann in the audience. Other supporters were in the audience including, Virginia Prince, Dr. Peggy Rudd who wrote the book titled "My Husband Wears My Clothes", Kimberly Richards the publisher of Cross Talk magazine and 3 female impersonators from the Queen Mary nightclub that used to exist on Ventura Blvd. This was another effort by Tri-Ess National and it's local Alpha chapter of which I was a member to educate the public about what cross dressers and their families are really like and hopefully gain more acceptance and understanding. Leeza did a great job doing just that and we considered the show a success.