After viewing a program this morning with and about "Dr. Renee Richards", the controversial Sex-Change Tennis player who made headlines in the 70s. I wondered once again. When are folks just gonna get over it? Is society ever going to make it ok to be who you ARE. Dr. Richards says that she believes, that even after her death, she will always be remembered as "the Transsexual Tennis Player". I think she's absolutely right about that, I am afraid to say. How powerful a legacy is that? And. How truely shallow of society to do that. Here we have a brilliant physician/surgeon, educator, writer and terrific athlete. Yet. She is still treated as the Guy who decided one day to be a Girl instead! Ms. Richards does not consider herself any sort of a pioneer or crusader. But.  Somehow society has managed or decided for her, what her LEGACY shall be. What nerves we have...!
                 I tell my friends all the time. The freedom of "CHOICE" is the most powerful thing given to us all, at birth. We ALL come into this world with it. It's a given. From inception we are all given the OPTION to Live or Die. The OPTION to CHOOSE or NOT. Though! Our choices are always in question and sometimes, if not often, scrutinized and judged. By no means should we give up that POWER of "CHOICE". Without it, there is no living. Dr. Richards certainly has held on to her powers, for dear life and I say. "my hats off to you Dr. Renee Richards.

 

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