Now 83, she supposedly remains active in music, but is still an elusive figure who fiercely protects her work...
Her self-imposed seclusion is a cautionary tale for us today, something that she admitted in the 1979 People interview. “The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent,” she said. “There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life.”
It's really hard to say how things might have gone had we taken some other path and she remains a reclusive figure. Some things are intractable problems, like it or not. (And I definitely don't like how hard the world makes it for trans individuals.)
Her self-imposed seclusion is a cautionary tale for us today, something that she admitted in the 1979 People interview. “The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent,” she said. “There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life.”
It's really hard to say how things might have gone had we taken some other path and she remains a reclusive figure. Some things are intractable problems, like it or not. (And I definitely don't like how hard the world makes it for trans individuals.)