The vast majority of people I meet are incredibly kind and positive towards me. Diana Thomas (formerly David Thomas; born 17 January 1959), better known by the pen name Tom Cain, [2] [3] is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels about protagonist Samuel Carver. David ThomasSenior, UK diplomat, was postedin Moscow when his son was born. "[Bashir] was talking about did she realize, you know, she is surrounded by people who are betraying her?" I've come out to big, burly geezers who know me as a fellow West Ham supporter, and they've reacted just as positively as the mostly female, mostly 60-plus members of the choir in which, pre-Covid, I used to sing. Some of us cross right to the other side. Speaking publicly for the first time, security expert Grahame Harding explains how Diana feared her calls were being recorded and hired him to inspect her rooms at Kensington Palace for bugs. Although the process of having that is so gruesome that it is testing my willingness to go forward, particularly as I will soon be 62. It is a very human thing to have dreams that you never fulfil, and how lucky am I that at my age I can fulfil my dream? There is a lot of nurturing in me that has gone to waste and there is a lot of love that is not being used up, she says in such a heartfelt way that I find myself tempted to give her a great big woman-to-woman hug. Only a racist. Thats the internalised transphobia again. Even if it did take me 45 years to follow that idea through.. Its amazing how quickly he accepted me as his daughter.. She spent 40,000 on hormones, laser, electrolysis, and coaching to feminise her face, hair, body and voice. [11] Bindel described Thomas's 1992 book Not Guilty: The Case in Defence of Men, as "a rant about how feminists have the brass neck to blame men for the terrible things they do to women, rather than themselves. As for the widespread public theories that Paul's blood samples could have been inaccurate or switched is there any truth to these claims? But when Williams-Thomas tracks down his close friend Claude Garrec, he insists that Paul was a responsible person who would not have put people's lives at risk. Its still swollen, it will take a year to go down but then it will be a much neater tip. David Thomas started his transgender diary last March, documenting his journey. Some of the faff , she concedes, has been both painful and costly. "Because of all the tampering allegations, I wanted the Met police to buy or borrow an identical car," says David Price, a forensic accident investigator who went on to compare Diana's crashed vehicle with a second Mercedes to determine any differences. Personally, I try to define myself in ways that make sense, to me or any other reasonable person. When Ive completed my transition and can honestly stand up and say, Im a woman, I will bloody well mean it.. Diana has no regrets, and there is nothing that she has gone through that she wouldnt do again. Oct 2014. EN.WikipediaLoveReadingLinkedinDaily Mail articlesDiana Thomas at the TelegraphMuck Rack Amazon Author Page (Thomas)Amazon Author Page (Cain)Amazon Author Page(Churchill). Enter your email address to receive every post by email. None of us is perfect, but most of us try our best to be decent and kind to others. Perhaps our response is a sort of metaphor for the limitations that are placed upon male behavior as a whole. The difference became obvious as I entered my teens, back in the early Seventies. The man called out: 'Do you want me to keep it open for you? And thankfully, most people do. I mean, the first few times I went out as Diana I w o u l d w a l k down the street and my knees would be knocking, but here is the thing: I could never go back to being David. London, SW6 4QL Tel: +44 20 7384 9011, Conversations At Scarfes Bar: Diana Thomas. Diana is the co-author of the 2018 strategic leadership book, Be More Strategic in Business: How to win through Stronger Leadership and Smarter Decisions. How could you not know? and he said, Yes, but you always had girlfriends. And of course that was true and looking back it had me fooled as well. Are there, I nervously ask, now boyfriends in Dianas life? We all deserve better. She feels some need to bare all in the Mail, and tolerate their use of a pre-transition photograph. Diana Thomas is a privileged trans woman, even though that's normally a contradiction in terms. Thomas was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Radnor, Pennsylvania. It is really exciting, she says when the shoot finishes and we sit down together to talk further about the dramatic changes that have taken place in her life since we last met, more than 20 years ago. On the one hand you have the radical feminists, and the occasional household name, who maintain that no one born male can ever truly be considered female, no matter what the state of their hormones, their genitalia or their legal gender. Diana creates another, the trans woman who just decides to say one day Im a woman without any medical help. The New Yorker called it "a glimpse into how consumerism, slowed to a less ferocious pace, might be reconciled with sustainability. The New York Review of Books said it was a "Marley's Ghost-style warning of the irrevocable destructions to come . Former presenters and reporters Dermot_Murnaghan Left 23 February 2023, after 16 years on Sky News. There are, it should be said, certain areas of Dianas past life that are not up for discussion. Now he is waving goodbye to his old male self. Hello Diana. Diana began her career as a McDonald's restaurant crew member in 1979, and rose to become Vice President of Training, Learning & Development for McDonald's USA. Oh, hell yeah. For all her rather beguiling enthusiasm for her new life, she remains, I cant help but feel, very vulnerable. Get your hair cut, you look like a woman said a stranger on the street. I wanted to be proud of who I was for once. And that is what people have been to me. Diana is an Editorial Advisory Board member for Chief Learning Officer magazine, a faculty member for Media Tech's CLO Accelerator Class, a Board Member for the National Diversity Council, and a past member of Tri-City Family Services' Board of Directors and an Advisory Board Member for the American Council on Education. And Brighton is probably the most LGBTQ-friendly place in Britain. "[Diana] was taken from the car, and she was conscious when they took her out," he says. Hello Diana Jump to content UK News Website of the. Diana Thomas's Profile | Daily Mail, Nature, The Telegraph Journalist | Muck Rack Diana Thomas As seen in: Daily Mail, Nature, The Telegraph, Color Research & Application, U.S. News & World Report, JAMA, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, The JAMA Network, Zero Hedge, Lexology and more Is this you? Moment Oakland DoorDash driver takes picture of pizza on doorstep before STEALING it - after manager ordered him to drop it off to business that was ransacked by burglars costing $70,000, Roman Polanski's wife reposts photo of Oscar-winning director with his 1977 teenage rape victim Samantha Geimer who says 'he's paid his debt to society'. Mostly, though, I was 'love', 'my darling', or even, on one occasion, 'sweetheart'. That's short for 'Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate'. She spent 25 years as a journalist,[6] working for publications such as The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. He follows this with a report on a visit to the Manchester branch of Stephanie Lloyds Transformations where married man Samantha says Id like to bonk while being dressed in a tartish fashion. The general public also want us all to have our bits rearranged, and will ask if we have done: there is slightly more acceptance for those who have, but this is in theory as why on earth would you answer such a question. [7] Prior to, Sony Pictures Classics acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film, excluding Italy. Previously unheard tape from BBC Archives reveals Duke of Windsor wanted Britain to appease Hitler. Diana Thomas Chief Financial Officer at Capco, LLC Grand Junction, CO Capco, LLC, +8 more University of South Carolina - The Moore School of Business, +2 more Diana Thomas Marketing operations. I saw voice therapists but did not work well with them. My father, bless him, was over 80 when I told him. As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. We're born this way and we spend our lives working out how best to match our ambiguous, shades-of-grey identity with the demands of a world that is used to simple black and white. Shes not entirely privileged. But did no one stop for a second to consider how bog-standard natal females, who account for 99.9 per cent of all births, and regard motherhood as the most profoundly female of all experiences, might feel? I have this opportunity late in middle age when a lot of people are feeling a sense of, Oh my God is this it? and maybe thinking that they were never quite the person they wanted to be. In 2019, Thomas began writing a column in the Daily Telegraph - A New Woman - about transitioning to become a woman, Diana Thomas. Write about our achievements, not the same old prurient rubbish. It all started when Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust went 'full woke' on the subject of their maternity unit. I had seen David several times during his transition and wed chatted about facial hair and breasts, but nothing prepared me for how moved I felt when I watched the elegant woman come tripping along the pavement with a dainty, ladylike step. I have worked hard all these years, I have earned my way for long enough, so yes, put a pinny round my neck and let me be a homemaker, please! She criticises how we look, sound, talk or behave, not accepting that we do our best to fit in, because we have internalised transphobia too. She writes of her delight at a few words exchanged with other walkers in the country, which she thinks indicate her being treated as a woman. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Diana's revealing interview with BBC reporter Martin Bashir made worldwide headlines, but that interview was obtained using lies and forged documents. Dianas excitement at unveiling her new look is palpable; so much so that talking in anything other than a positive way about the journey she is taking is almost impossible. '", Diana may have had a chance of surviving that night. What impact did Diana's revealing BBC interview have on the final years of her life? What a difference a year makes: when our columnist David Thomas started his transgender diary last March, little did he anticipate the ups, downs and expense of what it was going to take to become a woman. There are things in my life that are really distressing to me, but I am consciously making myself focus on the positive, she says a little curtly at one point. I am not female in the same way you are because I have never in my life had a period, but of course at our age nor does any other woman. Join Facebook to connect with Diana Thomas and others you may know. My transgender diary:'It's finally time to sayfarewell to David', My transgender diary: 'What trans women really get up to in ladies loos' , The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, What a difference a year makes: our columnist David Thomas started his transgender diary last March. David went on to become a prolific award-winning journalist and editor of Punch, settling down to married life with two daughters and a son. Needless to say, it has been a tough couple of years, not least with her family, a subject she will never discuss publicly, apart from her father: 'He . "He wasn't drunk, that's for sure, but he had consumed alcohol.". I think I have a lot to offer any man, dont you?, Diana's column continues in Telegraph Magazine next week. In the article, she seeks to portray herself as a reasonable trans woman, when really she is refusing to stand up for trans people whose trans problems she does not think she will face. Thomas is the Contributing European Sustainability Editor for British Vogue and a regular contributor to The New York Times Style section. She thinks inclusive language for trans men menstruating, having a cervical smear or giving birth is ridiculous, and that female columnists calling this yet another assault on womens rights have a point. The facial surgery, for example, hasnt left her with that alien look it sometimes does, but it was extensive, and the shoulder-length brunette bob she boasts today involved an initial process of hair weaving and extensions that requires regular upkeep at a specialist salon. I mean, just how lunatic do you have to be to transfer a male sex-offender convicted of raping women to a womens prison, just because he has suddenly decided that hes female, too? I dont know if anyone suddenly decides they are female, but while prisoners may lie I want trans women treated as women, even by prisons. Diana Thomas (pictured) says: 'Politically, I think we have to find a way to acknowledge and even celebrate the identity of trans people that does not undermine everyone else's identity'. Almost the best times are when I'm accepted without people even knowing they're doing it. Studio 2, Chelsea Gate Studios, 115 Harwood Road, London, SW6 4QL, Country & Town House In Diana: The Ultimate Truth, former detective and award-winning investigative journalist Mark Williams-Thomas examines theories that have emerged since Diana's passing and sets out to answer the key questions that continue to swirl around the late princess of Wales. Follow Thomas Diana and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Thomas Diana Author Page. So why does she say trans militants are only stoking intolerance?. Yet I still believe that World Rugby would be right to ban transwomen from female rugby on safety grounds. The procedure carried out on Monday was called a HoLEP. I even wrote a book on masculinity, called Not Guilty which was interpreted as being an attack on women, although the real reason I wrote the damn thing was to work out what it was I was missing. 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As it was impossible to get my surgery on the NHS during Covid, I had to go private. Liked by Dianna Thomas Join now to see all activity Experience Crime Author Shreveport Police Academy Sep 1990 - Present32 years 8 months Shreveport, Louisiana Area Author of 2 books of. Ironically, its often the ones who regard themselves as liberal that are the most hurtful and condescending. In 1989, she became the youngest ever editor of Punch magazine, a role she kept for three years. But it took a huge psychological effort to fight the battle against my true self. Lynn Barber / Jay Rayner / Nicholas Coleridge / Seb Coe / Tim Spector / Helen Browning. LGB All Liars, Graham Linehan and other extreme phobes have created a bogeyman, the sexual predator who pretends to be trans in order to enter womens spaces but is not really trans. "She said to me, 'I didn't know how many enemies I had. But suppose I had been at an NHS hospital: should I have been on a male or female ward? . Feb 10, 2021 . And that I might be one of them. A woman has to retain only one or two visible elements of femininity in order to keep her gender identity intact. I would much rather defeat ignorance and transphobia with persuasive argument. Conversations At Scarfes Bar: Diana Thomas. Id had enough of that. I spent so much of my life living in shame, as if Id committed a terrible sin and it made me feel very vulnerable. But D is not good for girls names. The right to put on a dress is not one for which most of us would man the barricades. She is also Director for the Institute of Economic Inquiry at Creighton University, and the 2016 President-Elect at the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. Hello Diana David Thomas started his transgender diary last March, documenting his journey. But here's the thing. 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If someone born in India comes to Britain legally, passes the citizenship test and gets a UK passport, who dares say, Youre not British? Story of BBC journalist Martin Bashir's dealings with Princess of Wales is of searing public interest. Caught in the crossfire of the pro and anti-trans lobbies are endless public institutions, so terrified of defying the latest woke diktats that they have entirely lost the faintest vestige of common sense. Using a laser inserted into my abdomen via a catheter in my urethra, the surgeon blasted away two-thirds of my grossly oversized prostate gland. She also wrote the script for Salvatore Ferragamo: The Shoemaker of Dreams, a feature-length documentary directed by award-winning Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. This is all hurtful and scary. . So its rather odd when people say what I am doing is brave, because what is brave about being happy? Can she, I ask, put a price on becoming Diana? on TVs The Tube in 1983; Right: David in the "And they were used to get the interview with Princess Diana." She says she went to all-boys schools, which probably though not certainly means fee-paying schools rather than public schools. "I was going from one to the other, checking out all the underside to look for any signs that anything had been attached to it or any signs that there had been a small explosion to disable something.". You may type in a name if you don't have a Google id. In hindsight, I think I should have had the guts to be totally honest with myself, and everyone else, much sooner. Wake up one morning. My oestrogen and testosterone levels are now indistinguishable from those of a woman my age taking HRT. Most normal people, who don't insist on seeing everything through a distorting lens of radical politics, have no problem accepting someone's right to live their best life. Her books include Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano and Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes. On the other are the trans activists who insist that all a person should have to do to change sex is wake up one morning, say, 'I'm a woman,' or, 'I'm a man,' and that is enough to make them what they want to be, regardless of how they look, sound, talk or behave. She has contributed to various publications including the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times in London. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Gays are to straights as California is to Arkansas.. 24 November 2014. This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. I came out to my father about six years ago and he was just so sweet. . Lets get JK into the Oxford Union and then Ill argue against the motion, This house believes no man can be a woman. Tel Aviv-Yafo. Of course, as my experience in hospital this week has shown, part of me will always be male . Internalized transphobia is also relative, but projecting it onto others is not part of ones privilege. My two sisters think of me (and, I suspect, prefer me) as their big sis, rather than big bro. Now research is suggesting that hormonal issues in the womb can cause the disparity between mind and body, the 'gender incongruence', as it is now termed, that is at the heart of the trans experience. As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. They told me my feelings of being in the wrong body were just sexual fantasies, a phase I would get over. The reason for this is that trans men, who have retained the female reproductive system they were born with, can and do give birth. When I ask her if she can start at the beginning for our readers, she says simply, Not transitioning was an awful lot harder than transitioning. Its also why she decided to abandon anonymity for her column. So five years ago, I could say 'I am transgender', and know that it was true and I had the psychiatrists' reports to prove it. Homosexuals are pioneers for the male sex. This post may contain affiliate links. In 2010, McQueen killed himself; a year later Galliano was fired from the creative helm of Christian Dior for a drunken anti-Semitic outburst in a Paris caf. In that sense, surely, she is being brave? Add some good to your morning and evening. . He may be six feet six, bearded, and wearing combat boots on his feet, but if he's got a skirt around his waist, he's no longer a man in the eyes of the world. says Simmons in the documentary. Today she can finally reveal her new identity, DAVID IN 2011; DIANA IN 2020: 'I didnt want to be a Davina or a Dora and I am absolutely not a Daisy, so its Diana, which has five letters like David', DIANA IN 2020: 'Sometimes people say to me, Why do you want to be a woman? It would be transphobic to deny my legally female gender, she writes, but she claims trans activists insist that all a person should have to do to change sex is wake up one morning, say, Im a woman, or, Im a man, as if anyone actually does that. Her hairline was back above her ears. This is my true self.. Diana Willow Penrose Thomas formerly known as David William Penrose Thomas is gyrating her body to the soundtrack of her youth in the London studio where she is making her modelling debut. Shes six feet tall, and she used to be an athlete, a rower. Essays on trans, intersex, cis and other persons and topics from a trans perspective.All human life is here. Touch wood, the procedure went well. I wanted to be a husband and father. Gender variant children are not ill, and do not desist.
