Episode 2772: FORTY YEARS TO LIFE by Barbara Bradford Ward - a podcast by Ric Bratton
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Forty Years To Life by Brenda Bradford Ward
This work is a vivid description of a life-in-hiding very few people ever will experience. Society errs either on the side of lax and harmful permissiveness or of harsh and destructive suppression regarding gender identity conflict. To address the problem effectively, we first need to understand it; and a pendulum approach to resolution only exacerbates the pervasive fog that persists regarding it. Long after an elegant solution finally ends the conflict before or shortly after birth, professionals and others still will be studying the fact of the condition's ages-old history. What it is and how best to deal with it are questions which must be addressed. These questions are central to Forty Years to Life.
Ms. Ward grew up in a house full of music and a family focus on small town retail banking. She too devoted herself to finance for decades with a finance-concentration MBA and a career in financial services. But she always felt a compulsion to pretend secretly to be someone else---suppressed. It took decades for her to approach transition. Once begun, transition was unstoppable. Years later, she examined her experience in The Fallacy of Assignable Gender. Beginning a new life as a PhD student in sex and gender psychology, she seized an opportunity to revisit her earlier work and she completed Forty Years to Life.
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