Archetype

I was watching an old clip of Jenny Jones and 18 year old Angelina was the picture-perfect beautiful young lady in the guest chair except that she was still a boy named Angel who had not yet begun hormones. Some in the audience were clearly dumbfounded but then this was the early 1990's and transsexual women were still somewhat of a novelty.

We have learned much since then.

Angelina was the classic archetype of the little boy who the parents didn't know what to do with. The walk and the mannerisms were unfixable as was the penchant for dolls. They had tried everything to no avail as her mother who sat beside her attested to. In this guise however, everything now made sense.

She would be about 50 today and someone had left a comment on the video that she was alive and well and long happily transitioned.