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Showing posts with label Ron Rigsbee. Show all posts
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Ron Rigsbee & Dorothy Bakker - Agony of Deception

Full title: "Ich, Sandy: Erfahrungen mit der Transidentität - Eine Autobiografie"

The book does not have any reviews but one that I found on Amazon, written by someone under the name of J. D. Radcliffe: "As to the book itself: it has an ugly dog of a title, but it must have satisfied both scribe Bakker and first-person narrator Ron Rigsbee (who died in 2019). There are some very nice photographs of Ron as a young would-be actor in New York, and then as an attractive and presentable young woman named Susan Fontaine. instead of a performing career, Susan migrated to Las Vegas where she developed a huge gambling jones and wound up working as a professional casino card dealer.

There's a photo of her dealing during the World Series of Poker, with Nick the Greek looking on. That was the high point of Susan/Ron's career. Soon after she had some kind of breakdown and sought relief in a rather fundie strain of Christianity. This led her to a jolly fellow from New Orleans named Perry Desmond, who himself had gone partway through a sex change before having his own come-to-Jesus moment. Perry persuaded Susan to become Ron again, to put on a suit and tie, have the breast implants out (couldn't do much about the other thing), and preach to the world. Why she couldn't just Preach the Lord as Susan was never explained, but I gather Susan was seen as "deception"—thus the title.

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