{"id":4510,"date":"2013-06-16T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T22:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T23:37:22","slug":"lgbtur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/16\/lgbtur\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2013\/06\/12\/famed-la-helicopter-reporter-bob-tur-becoming-a-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from CBS LA<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Famed LA Helicopter Reporter Bob Tur Becoming A\u00a0Woman<\/h1>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/CBSLA.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=420836;hostDomain=video.losangeles.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=480;playerHeight=360;isShowIcon=true;clipId=8987111;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.LA%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\"><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Los Angeles helicopter pilot-reporter Bob Tur, who famously covered the L.A. riots and the O.J. Simpson slow-speed\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook0\" href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2013\/06\/12\/famed-la-helicopter-reporter-bob-tur-becoming-a-woman\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">freeway<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"itxthook0icon\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" \/><\/a>\u00a0chase, said she suffers from gender dysphoria and is in the process of becoming a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Tur told KNX 1070\u2019s Chris Sedens and Diane Thompson that she is in the early stages of\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook1\" href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2013\/06\/12\/famed-la-helicopter-reporter-bob-tur-becoming-a-woman\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">aggressive<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"itxthook1icon\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" \/><\/a>\u00a0hormone replacement therapy to fully transform from male to female.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old, who worked for a number of L.A. news outlets, including CBS, said she was born with a female brain and a male body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a genetic disorder that happens in utero. Nobody knows exactly why, but you\u2019re born with a female or feminized brain. The corpus callosum is the main structure that joins the left and right hemispheres and it\u2019s a nightmare if you don\u2019t really know who you are. You think you\u2019re a woman, but you\u2019re a man,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Tur said she chose to come out publicly about her life-altering decision because she\u2019s \u201cdone hiding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m done trying to deal with this. It\u2019s gotten very bad in the last five years. It\u2019s been a very\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook2\" href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2013\/06\/12\/famed-la-helicopter-reporter-bob-tur-becoming-a-woman\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">easy<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"itxthook2icon\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" \/><\/a>\u00a0process once I made the decision to go forward. Now that my brain is getting the right hormones\u2026I had no idea that life was like this. I just had no idea. It\u2019s amazing. The dysmorphic OCD thoughts are gone. For the first time, I\u2019m truly happy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist said friends and family have been supportive of the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not had a single negative response,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize I had that many friends. A few people knew. A few people figured it out. For the most part, people didn\u2019t know. They were in a state of shock initially. My kids were in a state of shock. And they have been going through this mourning process. Bob Tur has got to die. And that\u2019s going to happen within the next three or four months. There\u2019s a mourning process, but they\u2019ve been very, very supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2013\/06\/12\/famed-la-helicopter-reporter-bob-tur-becoming-a-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at CBS LA<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p><em>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/04\/27\/bob-tur-the-l-a-riots-eye-in-the-sky-on-reginald-denny-more.html\" target=\"_blank\">check out this sweet piece at The Daily Beast on Tur <\/a>and how she invented essentially the helicopter News Report<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBS LA Famed LA Helicopter Reporter Bob Tur Becoming A\u00a0Woman LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) \u2014\u00a0Los Angeles helicopter pilot-reporter Bob Tur, who famously covered the L.A. riots and the O.J. Simpson slow-speed\u00a0freeway\u00a0chase, said she suffers from gender dysphoria and is in the process of becoming a woman. 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