Oct 2014. He also supplied mobile phones to Diana in secret to help her to avoid any potential surveillance. Could she have potentially survived her injuries from the crash? [8], Thomas is a member of the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris and the Overseas Press Club. Nor do we go too far into the current clash between some feminists and the trans lobby, despite Dianas evident concern for the issue (she has previously revealed how upset she was by JK Rowlings tweet in support of Maya Forstater, who lost her job after suggesting that transgender people cannot change the sex they are biologically born with). He could have been excused for mourning the loss of his only son. But here's the thing. I have this opportunity late in middle age when a lot of people are feeling a sense of, Oh my God is this it? and maybe thinking that they were never quite the person they wanted to be. Join Facebook to connect with Diana Thomas and others you may know. Explore Diana Brooks's 295 photos on Flickr! I mean, the first few times I went out as Diana I w o u l d w a l k down the street and my knees would be knocking, but here is the thing: I could never go back to being David. Having the money, and what it can buy, does not make one transer than thou.. In 2019, Thomas began writing a column in the Daily Telegraph - A New Woman - about transitioning to become a woman, Diana Thomas. The boys at school had posters of Raquel Welch in a fur bikini on their walls. . . "He wasn't drunk, that's for sure, but he had consumed alcohol.". They told me my feelings of being in the wrong body were just sexual fantasies, a phase I would get over. So why does she say trans militants are only stoking intolerance?. So far, so normal. Now he is waving goodbye to his old male self. I dont go into a ladies loo to oppress women. Was it not entirely predictable that female columnists would be rushing to their keyboards to bash out furious diatribes against yet another assault on women's rights and their fundamental identity? When Ive completed my transition and can honestly stand up and say, Im a woman, I will bloody well mean it.. Her 87-year-old father succumbed to Covid. Gradually, however, I became aware that there were people called transsexuals who had 'sex changes'. "[Bashir] was talking about did she realize, you know, she is surrounded by people who are betraying her?"