I said [in a piece for the Guardian] that transitioning was about "relaunching the symbiotic relationship between my body and mind from a starting point that felt right".
As I watched it slowly change, I realised that I'd never quite felt 'trapped in the wrong body', as the cliché goes: more that I could only function if I re-launched the symbiotic relationship between my body and mind from a starting position that felt right.
We also now know that repeated trauma literally blocks children's bodies, brains, and minds from developing in a healthy way, leading to negative health outcomes such as depression, obesity, heart disease, smoking, and binge drinking.
MacLean brings the city's ghosts to life and lets us feel the temper of their hearts and minds, from the likes of a medieval minstrel poet, to the antics of elegant prostitute Else Hirsch, model for the golden angel atop the Victory column, or the drabness of the East German soldier enlisted to help build the Wall.
We need a system that will connect and nurture minds from a young age and develop tomorrow's entrepreneurs who will invent the "Next Great Thing".
There's a critical mass professional, motivated and entrepreneurial minds from a variety of disciplines that accelerates information sharing, entrepreneurship and success in the Bay Area to an extent that has mystified it to those living outside this microcosm.
In his seminal work on the subject, Goffman defined a stigmatised individual as one with an "attribute that is deeply discrediting", and who is thereby "reduced in our minds from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one… [to the point where] we believe the person with the stigma is not quite human.
The person with the attribute is "reduced in our minds from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one".
Its help to Israel may not be al-Qaeda's main grievance against America, but in the war on terror this past decade Israel has surely been more of a liability than an asset in the contest for hearts and minds.Far from being a marriage of convenience, in other words, it is a marriage of inconvenience.
The exchange Sunday night recalled for some the 1975 Oscar broadcast in which Bert Schneider, producer of the documentary "Hearts and Minds," read a telegram from the Vietcong ambassador to the Paris peace talks that was rebutted later in the show by Frank Sinatra.
