. 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. 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. Adam Boulton Lisa Aziz (now with LBC News) Faye Barker (now with ITN) Colin Brazier (now with LBC) Lukwesa Burak (now with BBC News) Ginny Buckley Stephanie Callister Liam Creagh the USA in 1979, Left: Interviewing No one had given them any PC instructions about how to respect the sensitivity of trans people. That's short for 'Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate'. This should come as no surprise. Discover a proven approach to strategic leadership from Diana Thomas and Stacey Boyle, two distinguished business-women with decades of business coaching experience and insights. Because that is what the law will say I am, just as an immigrant who has obtained UK citizenship is legally entitled to say they are British. When I started the column I needed the money, I needed a job and look, I am a writer, and something interesting was happening to me so of course I am going to write about it. She spent 40,000 on hormones, laser, electrolysis, and coaching to feminise her face, hair, body and voice. She now writes. 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. Contact Diana, search articles and Tweets, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place. Her life of achievement is mostly behind her. Learn more, Charlotte Metcalf talks transitioning and fighting prejudice with Diana Thomas, Scarfes Bar has opened up specially so that Diana Thomas and I can have the first post-lockdown conversation there. The findings of the forensic team, along with all the other evidence gathered, may finally answer the remaining questions surrounding Diana's death. 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. I love creating a beautiful home, nothing makes me happier except possibly cooking a lovely meal or going shopping. Im already six foot, but if I have the penthouse and the Michelin star I probably need the heels. It is unfair that her huge build gets her read, but life is unfair and that huge build has been an advantage to her. But as I emerge into my new female life, I find that I, and other trans people like me, are at the centre of one of the most bitter wars raging through our culture. The myth here is that you wake up one morning. 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. [9] Between 2007 and 2012, she wrote a well-received series of thrillers about a former Royal Marine, turned assassin, Samuel Carver. Change). And the thing about me is that although the name on my driving licence, tax return and NHS record is Diana Thomas, I was born male. The boys at school had posters of Raquel Welch in a fur bikini on their walls. She began her journalism career working for the Style section of The Washington Post in 1988. magazine Punch in 1991, And I absolutely dont deny the guy in me. Diana, Princess of Wales, pours her heart out to BBC journalist Martin Bashir in 1995. . where he was editor Diana's revealing interview with BBC reporter Martin Bashir made worldwide headlines, but that interview was obtained using lies and forged documents. Some of us cross right to the other side. The correct term is now 'chestfeeding'. Tel Aviv-Yafo. "She had the premonition she would be killed or die not in a natural way," says Devorik in the documentary. The difference became obvious as I entered my teens, back in the early Seventies. 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. She was due to have completion surgery in 2020 but of course this was delayed because of the Covid pandemic. Diane Thomas is on Facebook. Perhaps our response is a sort of metaphor for the limitations that are placed upon male behavior as a whole. Had it not been for the pandemic, I would by now have had my final Gender Confirmation Surgery. Diana is still enforcing her transphobia on other trans folk. Shes six feet tall, and she used to be an athlete, a rower. ', Vaping is endemic in British schools and Elf Bar is at the heart of it, Three easy ways to make a healthy Coronation picnic, School seems optional now and our children are abandoned to social media, Our love of American food is making us sick and sad heres why, I had unexplained infertility at the age of 30, Your loaf of bread might be the unhealthiest thing in your kitchen, scars from her facial surgery in November, is the realisation of a dream that is all the more fulfilling, the shoulder-length brunette bob she boasts today. . As a trans woman, I would have been a social outcast. They did not use some contorted form of language to pretend that medical reality was anything other than it actually is. Explore Diana Brooks's 295 photos on Flickr! I mean I need a lot; I need about three womens supply. Hello Diana David Thomas started his transgender diary last March, documenting his journey. Some of the faff , she concedes, has been both painful and costly. Five months after the interview aired, the Mail on Sunday newspaper revealed what Mangold knew to be true, but by then the damage of what Diana divulged was done. Where can a female with a male health condition go without causing stress and embarrassment to her, or to other patients around her? Diana Thomas before her transition, as Dave Thomas. 'David Thomas' is a rather common name, and there are several who have written books. Becoming legally female and gaining a Gender Recognition Certificate does not require reassignment surgery, but it is very much part of Dianas future plans. But here's the thing. Her close friend Roberto Devorik says that Diana always believed she was going to die young. She was previously an assistant professor of economics at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business . 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. 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. They assume that their supposed moral superiority gives them the right to say whatever they like. And Brighton is probably the most LGBTQ-friendly place in Britain. But D is not good for girls names. Diana Thomas is the author of Be More Strategic in Business (3.71 avg rating, 17 ratings, 2 reviews), Australian Stories for the Heart and Soul (5.00 avg. View the profiles of people named Diana Thomas. Diana uses the analogy of immigration to explain transition. 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? Strategic leadership is essential to business success. 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. Because I had known for a very long time that I was not really one of the guys. I spent most of my childhood at all-boys' schools. But I absolutely dont believe in cancel culture. The last Tonight News with Dermot was broadcast on 28 February 2023. (LogOut/ 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. And yet, ironically, I thought I was protecting my family and my marriage by trying so hard to be a real man, she writes. Dana Thomas (born February 3, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) is a fashion and culture journalist and author based in Paris. I had girlfriends, married a woman and fathered three children. She attended Radnor High School and graduated in 1981. [7] Prior to, Sony Pictures Classics acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film, excluding Italy. Conversations At Scarfes Bar: Diana Thomas. In Its a Sin, the men dying of AIDS think they deserve it because of their internalised homophobia, because homophobia was instilled in them like everyone else. Ironically, its often the ones who regard themselves as liberal that are the most hurtful and condescending. Which brings me back to those lovely nurses looking after me this past week. They also reveal Diana's inner concerns in her final years. 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 . "[11] The column ended on 19 December 2020, with Thomas bidding an emotional farewell to her readers as she reflected on her harrowing transgender journey. She was due to have completion surgery in 2020 but of course this was delayed because of the Covid pandemic. Only a racist. 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. These experts come together for the first time on television in Diana: The Ultimate Truth. He also travels to the U.K. to meet an expert who prepared a report for the official British inquest into Diana's death. She does not realise she deserves better. Comments that constitute non-relevant advertisements will be declined, as will those attempting to be rude. He was only ever kind and loving and was keeping all my columns to turn into a book for friends. Anyone can do it, if they try. 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But surely, I persist, part of the dream she is pursuing must include the idea that one day her prince will come? [2] She was mocked in Private Eye for her frequent contribution to these newspapers, being satirised as "Daily Thomas of the David Mail". 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. Her royal security was also removed. But it took a huge psychological effort to fight the battle against my true self. Thats just science. One supposedly well-meaning person kept saying, Im the only person brave enough to say this as if all my friends were twittering maliciously behind my back.. She will have genital surgery as soon as she can. Facebook gives people the power to. And that is what people have been to me. I am not faking this. He was Young Journalist of the Year at age 24, a magazine editor at 25 and in 1989 the youngest ever editor of the 150-year-old Punch magazine where he stayed for three years. Yet I still believe that World Rugby would be right to ban transwomen from female rugby on safety grounds. office at satirical But suppose I had been at an NHS hospital: should I have been on a male or female ward? There are, it should be said, certain areas of Dianas past life that are not up for discussion. Diana Thomas. It takes only one or two non-masculine elements to intrude upon a man's appearance for his whole identity to fall apart. This is partly because there is no denying that Dianas facial surgery has subtly softened her face in rather the same way that her new identity seems to have softened her character. Because, bless them, they came in and said, Hi,Diana, and kissed me on both cheeks in exactly the way they did to the other women around the table. Diana is enormously encouraged by the way in which her friends and her 86-year old ex-diplomat father in particular have accepted and supported her in a manner that she says has reinforced her belief that most people are kind and good. David Thomas started his transgender diary last March, documenting his journey. I didnt change my initials because I wanted people to know that I was still the same person in practical terms. Lets get JK into the Oxford Union and then Ill argue against the motion, This house believes no man can be a woman. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. So I do not regret my male life. They told me my feelings of being in the wrong body were just sexual fantasies, a phase I would get over. With any luck, that should be possible within the next six months. If someone born in India comes to Britain legally, passes the citizenship test and gets a UK passport, who dares say, Youre not British? By the time I was at university, I was seeing my first shrinks. In the documentary, Williams-Thomas retraces Diana's steps in Paris, where Diana spent her final days with filmmaker Dodi Fayed in August 1997, and tracks down crash witnesses who have never spoken publicly. Our eight content pillars celebrate the finest in Culture, Style, Interiors, Property, Schools, Sustainability, Hotels & Travel, and British Brands. Follow Diana Thomas and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Diana Thomas Author Page. The direction of travel is constant. 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 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. Country & Town House is the go-to destination for trusted, inspiring and uplifting content that will enhance your lifestyle wherever you live. Join Facebook to connect with Diana Thomas and others you may know. 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. - Analysis of a Crime Novel. Hundreds of trans-related blogs, updated automatically. If she did not have internalised transphobia, she would have more dignity than to write about her private prostate surgery in the Daily Mail. 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. Comments from 'unknown' and anonymous will also be declined. The reason for this is that trans men, who have retained the female reproductive system they were born with, can and do give birth. 24 November 2014. Being true to who I am has made me a calmer, happier person, and much easier to be around. 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. Jun 4, 2020 Replying to @Telegraph and @TelegraphMag Not a woman. Gender variant children are not ill, and do not desist. As it was impossible to get my surgery on the NHS during Covid, I had to go private. Yes we are; but we do not need that as an excuse. 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. I would have hoped the press would have got beyond such stories. It was all I could do not to give a triumphant fist-pump and a shout of: 'Yessss!!' Documentary tells inside story of the Baker Street robbery of 1971, and the claims it was a secret service operation to cover up a royal scandal, Republican party chairwoman warns 2024 presidential candidates need to address abortion 'head on' - and suggests Dems would allow terminations at nine months, 'A waste of licence payers' money!' 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. For her Telegraph column about transitioning, shes been named Columnist of the Year and has received the prestigious discretionary British Press Awards Chairmans Award. Historians believe the Duke of Windsor actively collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War. A groundbreaking new documentary examines her final years and what really led to the accident that night in a Paris tunnel. Once again one should note the extreme fragility of masculinity in the face of any threat to its conventions., Transvestism is an unlikely mast upon which to fly the banner of men's liberation. I havent yet had a change that doesnt make me feel better. '[13], Her writing influences include Lee Child, Ian Fleming, and George Macdonald Fraser.[14]. Some people tell me that trans women are still dangerous men who should be banned from women-only spaces. as journalists, we would frequently find ourselves writing on opposite . "She would say, 'I think they are going to kill me. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. Yes, yes is the answer. Its like saying to a shark, But why did you go and eat that surfer? Because I am a shark, thats what I do, she says with a grin before adding, in a more serious tone, For once in my life as a journalist I actually felt I had a real moral purpose. You might wait years to see a specialist psychiatrist and not want hormones obtained illicitly. No, I wouldnt enter into a relationship until some time after I have had the operation, she says carefully after a thoughtful pause. Hello Diana Jump to content UK News Website of the. '", Diana may have had a chance of surviving that night. 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. And had her car really been tampered with? It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. Conversations At Scarfes Bar: Diana Thomas. 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. "[Diana] was taken from the car, and she was conscious when they took her out," he says. I was filled with shame, self-disgust, bursting with pent-up anger and unhappiness. Oh, I always thought this track was right up my street, she exclaims to the photographer as she mouths the lyrics to the song, Youve got your mother in a whirl/ Shes not sure if youre a boy or a girl. Bowie was hugely influential to me; the idea that you had some choice over who you could become was a huge, huge thing. Those who cant are portrayed as terrifying, big, hairy, Desperate-Dan-in-a-frock trannies when the truth is theyre just poor. 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. He took his concerns to the program editor but was ignored. It moves on to a section called Frocks Away (p104-8) in which he discusses drag parties at Mick Jaggers house, Bohemian Grove drag events for the super elite, Paris is Burning, drag star Lypsinka being featured in Vanity Fairin November 1992 and in Esquire magazine, Wigstock, and a survey that showed that only 2% of women accept cross-dressing from their male partner, while female cross-dressing is repeatedly common in fashion. And just as it is racist to deny the British identity of a fellow citizen simply because they are an immigrant, so it would be transphobic to deny my legally female gender just because I was never a little girl. I look forward to Diana's next thriller, hopefully with a female (cis or trans) protagonist. Write about our achievements, not the same old prurient rubbish. She spent 25 years as a journalist,[6] working for publications such as The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. Julie Bindel. Old friends have rallied round: one couple even held a party to introduce the new me to our circle of old university friends. I wanted to be proud of who I was for once. She wrote an article for the Daily Mail, headed "Ex-Cambridge University rower and married dad DIANA THOMAS spent six decades as a man So why does she say trans militants are only stoking intolerance?" The. Of course, as my experience in hospital this week has shown, part of me will always be male . She is hoping that she will gain a similar level of approval from the public as she received a week previously when she attended a dinner party thrown by a university mate and his wife to introduce Diana to their old friends. Oh, hell yeah. For all her rather beguiling enthusiasm for her new life, she remains, I cant help but feel, very vulnerable. Seconds later, though, that other Diana is back the sharp, sassy, witty one who owes quite a lot to her former self and is determined to amuse, bemuse and entertain us all as we follow her on her journey. 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'. I have absolutely no doubt that I will be happier if I have full surgery. I use the immigration analogy because in the same way that immigrants bring to their host nation things from their own culture food, music, whatever I think I can bring or we can bring something new and interesting to the female experience. 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. "[Bashir] was talking about did she realize, you know, she is surrounded by people who are betraying her?" 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. Strong leaders are those who successfully navigate a great shift: from tactical doer to strategic leader. Diana Thomas is a privileged trans woman, even though thats normally a contradiction in terms. In a fitting tribute to its founding president & editor in chief, Chief Learning Officer magazine unveiled the Norman B. Kamikow Learning Leadership Award, naming Diana Thomas, VP U.S . Many questions remain about her final years, what happened the night she died and who may be responsible for the accident. They just acted with warmth, consideration and respect to me as a human being. Shes not entirely privileged. I am going to finish in an accident helicopter, plane or car crash. 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. I saw voice therapists but did not work well with them. [8], Thomas is a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club. She was privileged because she got into Cambridge University. Williams-Thomas also meets with Diana's close friend Simone Simmons, who described Diana's conversations with Bashir prior to filming the interview. She also wrote the script for Salvatore Ferragamo: The Shoemaker of Dreams, a feature-length documentary directed by award-winning Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. Text is available under the Creative . This week Diana meets up with old friends and wonders what they will make of the new Diana By Diana Thomas 1 Oct 2020, 11:00am My transgender diary: 'I need surgery to lose my male vocal cords' She was educated at Eton College[5]. My father, bless him, was over 80 when I told him. Having the money, and what it can buy, does not make one transer than thou.. "She said to me, 'I didn't know how many enemies I had. She also writes regularly for Architectural Digest and Elle Decor. His only concern was my well-being and the fact that he had had no idea, and he wished he had known. Diana Thomas. In 2019, Thomas began writing a column in the Daily Telegraph - A New Woman - about transitioning to become a woman, Diana Thomas. I dont go into a ladies loo to oppress women. That would be so much more fake. She feels some need to bare all in the Mail, and tolerate their use of a pre-transition photograph. In 2021 she went to a private hospital for an enucleation of the prostate. The further down the road I go, the happier I get. Of course, there are bound to be complications. For men, the opposite is true. 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. But he only ever thought of my wellbeing and happiness. The procedure carried out on Monday was called a HoLEP. Thats difficult, some things have come in under budget, but I reckon it must be over 50,000. Is she worth it? Internalized transphobia is also relative, but projecting it onto others is not part of ones privilege. She served as a contributing editor for T: The New York Times Style Magazine from 2012 to 2017 and WSJ., the Wall Street Journal's monthly style magazine, from 2011-2012; as the European editor of Conde Nast Portfolio from 2008 to 2009; and as European cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris from 1995 to 2008.
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