"The only things I'm missing are my kids and a partner. Racheal has published 6 books: 2 volumes of autobiography, a novel, a book of photographs from Andrew to Racheal a collection of articles on trans topics and a short guide to transition. She was featured in Rachel Francis & Michael Larsen's 2012 book about the sex industry in New Zealand. She later returned to New Zealand and lived in Auckland where she opened a brothel. With Summer Bardot she escorted across Australia and New Zealand. Racheal became a prostitute under the name of Storm. Racheal, as she became, had genital surgery and breast augmentation with Dr Sanguan Kunaporn in Phuket, Thailand, February, 2006. Rejected by the children, whom she has not seen since, McGonigal lost 20kg (3 stones) in weight. His then girlfriend found out and there was a revelation at his daughter's 21 st birthday, and within days all the family knew. He experimented with female hormones even before divorce.Īfterwards McGonigal had relationships with women while also investigating transsexuality online. He became a farmer and business man who was married for 14 years, and with his wife had two children. He cross-dressed from age 7, but also played in the school's rugby first 15 and was head prefect.Īt 21 he consulted a doctor about feeling female, and was advised to grow a beard. McGonigal was raised in Gisborne, north-east New Zealand. "Living Trans, From Iran to New York City". The next day, at her current gig, Death of the Persian Prince, she was congratulated by the director-writer and by her co-actors. On June 26, 2015, the day that the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage should be recognised, Pooya announced on her Facebook page that she was trans. Working mainly in stealth, she noticed a distinct increase in casting calls for trans actresses, and in applying for them sometimes privately disclosed to the director that she was so. Finally he tried to choke her.įrom 2009, Pooya started singing and acting, and graduated from the Maggie Flanigan Studio in 2012. In 2003, Pooya married a man 17 years older, but arguments developed after her final gender-affirming surgery around the notion that she should have gotten his opinion on the surgery. Pooya studied textile design and fashion at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), where she was part of the FIT theatre ensemble. Pooya, though a name given more often to boys, is a unisex name in Iran meaning 'dynamic', and so there was no need for a change. Pooya quickly found a psychiatrist and started on hormone therapy. They looked into emigration, and in 1997, the family was able to move to New York City, and initially were living on savings. Her parents realised that they would lose their child unless she was allowed to transition, but were still afraid of the social reaction in Tehran. At age 18 Pooya made several attempts to kill herself. Her friends stayed away, even after the government psychological board officially declared her to be transsexual. She had therapy sessions with three different psychologists who attempted a 'cure'. She started walking the streets at night and getting into men's cars. Pooya slipped into her deepest depression. Her mother's reaction was that Pooya should not do anything about it until both parents were dead. Her mother took her to a friend's husband, a psychiatrist who happened to have studied sexuality and gender, and named her problem as gender identity disorder. There was no outside voice: no articles, no television show." “I had never met a trans person - never even personally seen a trans person, except as some twisted depiction in a Hollywood movie. As a teenager she withdrew, and by 16 was hardly talking or eating. As a child she did not even realise that she was not officially female.
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