I live in Colorado, but spent my first 30 years in Brooklyn and I drove a N.Y.C. cab for much of time, while going to school. However, one doesn't have to be an Ex N.Y.C. cab driver to enjoy HBO's Taxicab Confessions, with the N.Y.C. editions being more interesting than the Vegas ones.
For those who don't know what she show is about, it is a simple documentary of a licensed N.Y.C. cab driver picking up fares, in a cab that has a few tiny cameras in the cab. Then the cab driver simply engages the passenger(s) in conversation, which can quickly get very private and interesting.
There is one scene where a guy gets into a cab with his girlfriend, who he obviously adores. She is a post-op Transsexual. She is attractive and her boyfriend is very proud of her, attracted to her and supportive of her.
That sad thing was that even though the boyfriend looks at his Transsexual girlfriend as a feminine women, yet, she was telling the cab driver that she doesn't view herself as a woman. Why ???? Because she can't give birth to a child, "she cannot make life", so she will never be a woman.
Being a women is
a LOT more than being able to get pregnant.
I found it sad that she was obviously loved and accepted by her boyfriend, yet rejected part of herself because she couldn't conceive.
There are many thousands of natural born women, that for various reasons, cannot give birth or cannot give birth safely. From personal experience (I am a guy), I know that at times, those women can feel depressed and struggle with their identity because of this (my ex-wife).
I would like to know what others might think or say to the Transsexual woman who was on the show.
Jon
