Aug 17 2007 10:PM SBS Documentary: Miss International Queen-

[lee]

Gavin,as mentioned in the last post is also known as the Lovely Miss Leah True-as featured frequently in the Roses “Repartee” magazine published in the U.K.Leahs partner Sue-also featured in the doco-writes quite a well written column in the mag for partners and S/O,s as well.
I have been quite looking forward to SBS picking this doco and you guessed it-I wont be able to see it or record it to watch later-typical of my luck lately.Will any body-perhaps a Tassie girl-be likely to be recording it-and maybe having a copy made for little me????
All costs etc would be quite happily covered!!!.

Hugz

Lee

[Anonymous]

Hi, Bambi,
I’ve just got around to commenting on this programme. It really amazed me, how ordinary 41 year old Gavin looked as a man. But how terrific and younger he looked as a woman. I never cease to be amazed at how much better and younger we men look when madeup, in a nice frock, and with a stunning hair-do.
But I believe Gavin was doomed from the start, having ‘bitten off more than he could chew’, by entering a competition which included post- op Transsexuals, t-girls who had had breast augmentation, facial surgery,hormones and the like. How could a person who is, in effect, an unaltered man, albeit a wonderful ‘female impersonator’ compete with such , for want of another word, ‘professionals’
These other girls had real hair, real boobs, etc, and thus could, for example, go to the beach and swim for the cameras, while poor Gavin had to sit on the sidelines in the heat, and just envy them.

Now, I’ve got nothing against pre or post op transsexuals, T-girls who’ve had extensive surgery, hormones, etc. Good on them. I wish I could, too, but my point is, I reckon the ‘Miss International Girl’ Pageant have categories,- sort of like in sporting events, like boxing, where the participants are graded by weight, or skill, to give all the types of girls a chance.
You wouldn’t see a local tennis player pitted against a wimbledon champ. Why pit a nice transvestite against professionals?
They could have categories for Tv’s who are basically unaltered men, those who have had surgery, those who have had hormones, those who have had both,maybe.
Poor Gavin was getting progressively more pissed off as the competition went on.He went from being a”big fish in a little pond” to a “Little fish in a big pond” and he didn’t deserve that. It was like what I’ve occasionally seen in teaching,when the smartest kid in a regular class gets transferred to an OC ( Gifted) class, and suddenly he’s at the bottom. His self esteem plummets, sometimes never to recover.
Mind you, he should have known what he’d be up against. But it was a bit unsettling to see him continually pinning his hopes on the next category- Gown, Swimsuit, National costume.etc. to get into the final 10. The viewer could see that he had virtually no hope of making the grade against such competition.
And I can imagine, the heat and humidity in Thailand would make it awfully uncomfortable to be wearing full makeup, dress, and wig all day under hot lights.
But I suppose he learned something and was somewhat the wiser for his experience. He stated, near the end, that if he’d known what it was like he’d never have done it. I wonder if the television documentary team had any influence in him going in the pageant.
I was wondering all through the programme, when he kept saying that his workmates and parents didn’t know of his crossdressing, if he had thought of what was going to happen when the programme was aired.
I heaved a sigh of relief when he said he was going to tell them. They were wonderfully supportive. I wonder how his workmates received the news! I would love to have seen that bit. I wonder if they filmed it.

Anyhow, it was a really good programme, unlike some of the disappointments I’ve seen lately.

Hugs, Michelle

[Anonymous]

i managed to see the last part of this prgramme (i don’t have a recorder) … pity it was screened on the same night as hell fire … but you can’t have everything 😆

in the part i saw – i think it was gavin that was being shown – what impressed me most was his/her coming out to his/her mother.

in the doco, he showed his/her mother all of these huge colour photos. and as mum was flicking through them, she was oooohing and aaaaahing, saying how fabulous they were. at one point she asked, darling, why are you showing me all of these photos, have you taken up photography. then gavin told her that it was him.

so even though gavin didn’t win any contest, the doco, and the contest gave him the motivation to come out to his family, and it was a wonderful ending, probably better than winning the contest.

so it goes to show that even a mum can be fooled by the transformation of her son into (i must quote jade star here – i love u jade) the optimized gender. we all live in hope. how uplifting was that bit to me? for those who saw the doco … i hope it was uplifting to you, too.

hugs,

v
oxo