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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:00 AM

I was conned by JT Leroy

I talked to him on the phone for hours. I even listened to his therapy sessions on tape. And after one particularly weird conversation about his upcoming sex-change operation, I decided he was a fake. So why did I still get sucked in?

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  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006 08:16 AM

    how to spot a fake

    Waldman says Leroy spoke of SRS (sex reassignment surgery) as "hacking it off," a sure sign that they don't know what they're talking about. SRS uses penile-inversion vaginoplasty, basically it's still there, it just goes in instead of out. It's reshaped, not discarded. This is a little-known fact, except to those who have actually learned something about the subject. It would have been easy to research the facts about SRS if you wanted to claim that status, but "Leroy" seems to have been careless with the facts.

    I hope the fraud won't reflect badly on transsexuals. Probably not, since they had nothing to do with it.

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