Friday, June 19, 2009

The Hermaphrodite: Jamie



I started out life as a girl. Not exactly what I wanted, but that’s the way it happened. My grandmother used to make all of my clothes and of course she made dresses, and my mom used to braid my hair.

Early on I displayed some intolerance of my given sex and I cut the braids out of my hair. I also bound my chest with an Ace bandage. It was the only way I could go through life. I couldn’t allow my breasts to show. Nor could I take having the appearance of a female.



In high school, I did attempt to be feminine at times. I ran for queen of our May Fete court and came in 2nd runner up. It was the only time I wore a dress in high school and I did it basically as a joke. I thought that I was gay because I was a woman who liked women, but I also felt like a guy so I thought I was really, really gay!

I got my first girlfriend my freshman year in college. She was also a female to male transsexual although I think today she is living as a lesbian. At the time, her friendship was much needed, but ultimately it didn’t work out-mainly because her father was delusional, but that’s another story.

I ended up going to mortuary school in Louisville KY. While there I made one more last ditch effort to be a woman. I wore dresses to class and grew my hair out, but in the end it was too uncomfortable to keep up. It just wasn’t me.

After mortuary school, I moved back home where I met a woman who said that she loved me. For the first time in my life, I felt like I could have a normal life with a wife and kids. We talked about what we’d do after I have a sex change, but I really didn’t know where to start getting information to do that. I didn’t have the courage to go out and find the information so I just maintained the status quo. When my girlfriend broke up with me, I was devastated and it forced me to find information to change my sex.

I moved back down to Louisville and I joined a support group for transsexuals. I was the only guy in the group. I wanted to talk football and they wanted to talk eye shadow. However, they put me on the road to manhood. I got information on how to change my name as well as where to get hormones. If I hadn’t gotten hormones I would have committed suicide. I wasn’t able to pass anymore. I looked like a lesbian and people were calling me “ma’am” at the grocery store. I thought my life was over. The hormones saved me. My self-esteem was still very low even though I was finally starting to have the outward appearance of a man.

I moved to Chicago where I was determined that the upcoming summer would be the last summer that I would have boobs. I made an appointment with a doctor in TX (Dr. Raphael), flew down and had my boobs removed! Yea!!! My self esteem immediately shot up. My girlfriend at the time was very supportive, but our relationship ultimately didn’t work out. Even though I was devastated (yes, again I was devastated by a break up), I found other women who liked me. I began to realize that I was hot! I could get girls! I put an ad on the Internet and became a slut! I met many women, but none of whom I felt like I could spend my life with.



I had also begun to pursue my life long dream of being an actor. Chicago was exactly where I needed to be. Chicago is the sketch and improv capital of the world! I immediately got involved with plays and doing improv. And I was doing it as a man!

Just when I was about to give up all hope of finding someone to spend my life with, I reconnected with a woman that I had known years earlier. There was a spark that ignited a flame and today she is my wife. I couldn’t be happier!

I am currently working as a film producer with a company in Chicago. I am also an actor/comedian, and have a one man show entitled LIVING INSIDE MYSELF. It's a sometimes funny, sometimes touching look at my life growing up as a woman. It is currently available for production. I was most recently seen on the Chelsea Handler Show on E! I can also be seen in shows at many theatres in Chicago.

Story Continues...

7 comments:

  1. All I can say is damn! I wonder did they ever test this hermie's DNA. This was clearly a male child internally. That must have been awful. Oh my god, now he has to worry about when he meets a female how is he going to break his childhood down to her. Thats why his ass can't keep a women, who in the hell wants to be affiliated with that. He can joke all he wants to, but i know he has to be bitter.

    The women (his wife) that supposely connected with him is more than likely a hermie too.

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  2. Wow!

    He (or she) didn't say that they turned into a internet dating freak after her (or his) boobs were chopped off and after he finished taking those hormones pills - to fully look like a boy.

    Man, this story is in her (or his) own words. There's a lot of information missing. He kept his penis but only chopped of his boobs.

    He was a born a girl so he has a reproductive system and get a month period just like a girl (or woman) would.

    If she decides to have children, the children will be born "that way" as well.

    Wow!

    I went to his website and he was on a lot of television shows!

    Wow!

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  3. Jamie Black

    Film/Television/Industrials

    At The Movies Guest Critic Pixel Brothers
    True Blood Parishioner Digital Kitchen/HBO
    Advovate Health Care Nurse Glader Filmworks
    Ace Hardware Bob Orchard Productions
    Wawa Area Manager Brella Productions
    Ticket Reserve Anthony Brella Productions
    The Lighter Journey Detective Sillyman Productions
    The Chelsea Handler Show Rufus Derby Productions/E!
    Girlfriends Extra UPN
    History Channel:Conspiracy Martin Luther King Jr Towers Productions
    Splitzville Host JuneTwenty Productions

    Commercials

    Star Bank Ice Cream Guy Punch Films
    Legal Helpers A Clown Comcast Spotlight
    Big Ten Network Northwestern Fan Chelsea Pictures
    Lifelock Man on Street Kommenich Films
    Nicor Advanced Energy Chris BigFoot Productions
    Art Van A Mattress Avalon Films
    Quiznos Principal Ogilvy Productions
    Union Bank Choir Singer Kommenich Films
    Advance America Diner Patron Backyard Productions

    Theatre

    The Ville Leo/Bus/Taxi Driver Bare Boned Theatre
    Chicago Sketchfest Black Bauer Lukaba Productions
    Sketchup Various Characters Knowlaughingmatter Productions
    Improviders Improv Show Barham Productions
    Chicago Sketchfest Various Characters Lukaba Productions
    Smogzilla Various Characters National Theatre for Children
    Whips, Snaps, and a Whole Lotta Naps Various Characters Soul Fools Productions
    Chicago Sketchfest Various Characters Lukaba Productions
    Who Wants to Marry a Top Model... Various Characters Second City Training Center Production
    Ya Make We Want to Challah! Taylor Simms Second City Productions
    Shock and Awe Hell Naw! Various Characters Second City Training Center Production
    Words Various Characters Second City Outreach
    A Midsummer Nights Dream Puck ComedySportz
    Homey For The Holidays Taylor Simms Second City Production
    Alice In Waterland Various Characters National Theatre For Children
    Contract: Death Al Dupree Murder Mystery Players
    Dream Job Danny Dramatic Diversity
    Poppin' and Lockdown Father Shrimp Factory Theatre
    Think About It Victor Noble Fool Theatre

    Training/Instruction

    On Camera Technique w/ Ted Hoerl, Script Application at Act One Meisner Technique, Advanced Technique with Repetition and Movement at Actors' Center, Comedy Writing at Second City Training Center, Acting/Improvisation at Players Workshop, Master Improv w/ Josephine Forsberg, Voice, with Liz Boaz, Tap/Jazz at Kathy Todd Dance Studio

    Special Talents

    Play trumpet, various accents, embalm bodies, swimming, bicycling, stand up comedy, drivers license, DJ, MC, Ringmaster, Pac Man champion, green screen, solo performance

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  4. Damn, this MFer is weird. He has "embalm bodies" as a talent.

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