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[–]our_team_is_winning 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I forgot all about "Alexis" Arquette! He died, didn't he? No wonder she's on the trans train. I'd forgotten about the Arquette brother.

[–]MarkTwainiac 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

IIRC, prior to his death "Alexis" started identifying & presenting as male again. His siblings re-transed him after his death.

[–]our_team_is_winning 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hadn't realized. Sentences like this actually hurt to read:

"Our brother Robert, who became our brother Alexis, who became our sister Alexis, who became our brother Alexis [has] passed," began his announcement.

Can someone explain female spirit to me?

Back in 1999, she was living as a man. Still, says Ibrahim, "I always felt that she had the spirit of a female. I always referred to her as a she."

In 2013, amid increasing health complications, Alexis began presenting herself as a man again, telling Ibrahim that "'gender is bullshit.' That 'putting on a dress doesn't biologically change anything. Nor does a sex-change.' She said that 'sex-reassignment is physically impossible. All you can do is adopt these superficial characteristics but the biology will never change.'" That realization, Ibrahim suspects, was the likely source of her deep wells of emotional torment.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/final-days-alexis-arquette-a-928507