"I realized that so much of what I attribute to being a woman is just hormonal. And if I (had actually) started taking testosterone, just testosterone -- not a sexual reassignment surgery -- just testosterone, that I would experience the world very differently.

In the many books I read, biographies and autobiographies of transgendered people, they talked about when you're a guy, it feels like you're sort of an aircraft carrier going through the ocean; boom, boom, boom. The waves break but you're on a steady line going forward. Six months or a year into the hormone therapy, suddenly it feels like you're in a little rowboat and the waves come and you go up and you go down and then you go up and you're very affected by the world around you.

As a guy, they'd say 'I'd have a disagreement with a co-worker and I'd leave it behind and go on with my day. And then a year later (after the hormone thearpy), I'd have a disagreement with my co-worker and it would stay with me and I would have to go over it and have to talk to friends about it and it would deeply upset me.'

So, that interests me. That so much of it is hormonal, something that I took to be a deeply engrained personality trait."

-- Felicity Huffman, award-winning actress best known for her role on Desperate Housewives, talking about her research for her Oscar-nominated role as a transgendered person in the film Transamerica.

Have you seen this movie yet? I haven't yet but I've heard really good reviews about it.

My coach saw the 60 minutes interview with her and said it was amazing. Would have liked to have seen that.