Word: raskind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone knows who Renee Richards is, but not many people have heard of the former Richard Raskind. He was a tall, strapping former Yalie tennis standout who continued his racquet career while becoming one of the nation's leading ophthalmologists. Friends and family labelled Raskind "All-American," but most did not know that the accomplished 42-year-old had been nurturing one secret goal since childhood. Then, one day, he took some time off from his New York practice and, after coming back, decided to leave the big city for good. His friends and colleagues thought he was just going...
...some digging, the link between the two names would never have been made public. Now that most of the nation knows how successful eye sur-two names would never have been made public. But now that most of the nation knows how successful eye surgeon male tennis competitor Richard Raskind had a has decided to explain why anyone would do such a thing. In Second Serve, which was written with John Ames, Richards presents a rambling, humorous and sometimes impassioned memoir of how Raskind Richards dealt with a desire to change the unchangeable...
People tend to complain about things they can't do much about lack of height, disease, baldness. One doesn't often hear gripes about the way a person's sex chromosomes happened to link up. There are tomboys and effeminate men, but most work with what they have. Richard Raskind worked against what he had for many of his 42 years, trying to figure out how to react to the nagging feeling that he wanted to be--ought to be--a woman...
...Richard Raskind story would be difficult to ruin, and the authors make sure to keep out of its way. In fact, the book reads like a collection of stories and thoughts pieced together with some errant editorial comments. Nothing, it seems, is held back the reader must wade through all the gory and embarrassing details. Which doesn't of course, make it any less enjoyable...