Originally Posted by geraniums:
“I`ve never thought of Nadia as anyone other than a woman. Even in the photos before she had her operation it seemed fairly obvious (to me anyway!) that she was trapped in the wrong gender.”
What a strange thing to say: to believe you can tell just by looking at a photograph of someone that they are in the wrong gender.
There were times in BB that Stuart to me looked like an american supermodel with his delicate features, thick glossy hair, hair band and make-up. He gave no indication that he was unhappy with his masculine gender: in fact he seemed secure enough not to feel threatened by exploring his feminine side.
Yet you would probably have marched him off for gender reassignment surgery double quick, on the spurious basis that he could easily have passed for "female" if he had chosen.
In my opinion, if I had had to chose between pictures of Stuart or pre-operative Nadia to determine which person was trapped in the wrong gender, I would have chosen Stuart if that was all the information I had.