“I thought that there was a power of beauty, a power of skin,” they add poignantly, describing how they felt they could have resisted the abuse if they had been a white girl.
The author claims that they might have used “that kind of authority embodied within white femaleness” to convey the message to “back the hell off.”
They’ve given transitioning from the inside out a lot of thought, according to Ronnie, who has been in treatment for over 20 years.
In their book White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female, they went into great length about this.
The book is a collection of letters that Dr. Gladden wrote while posing as a white woman and a black man.
Ronnie describes the feeling as ‘insistent, continuous and persistent over the years’. As a child, they saw themselves’reflected’ in a variety of women,
