Sophie Marie White, married with three kids, is a native of South Louisiana. She draws from her varied experiences as a writer, filmmaker, producer, Director of Photography, Chiropractor, EMT, firefighter, race car driver, and boxing promoter to inspire her. She is a transgender female, and with her family, making her way through the complicated transition process.
Sophie Marie needed to update her life insurance coverage. She had concerns that her change in gender status would negatively affect how the company measured their risk. Would they give her male rates, female rates? After some research she found that each company has a different policy on transgender people. And, she was going to have to go for a physical. How would that go? Read on!
People assume that if one of their friends or family was feeling so bad that they were considering suicide that they would see it and be able to get their friend or family member help. But too often people who are contemplating taking their own life don’t give those around them any clues. Sophie Marie was there at one time. Ready to check out and end it all. Read today’s blog to learn how she came back from the edge.
Our new Contributor is Sophie Marie White. In her first blog for TGForum Sophie writes about the stages she went through to finally arrive at acceptance of herself and her gender identity. She outlines five stages and says that they don’t stick to a specific order. They can show up at any point and cause problems.
