Like many young women, Dr Ronnie Gladden grew up wanting to be like Snow White, fantasised about a Pride & Prejudice lifestyle and wanted to emulate Elle Fanning's fashion.
Ronnie dreamed of lying out in the sun getting a tan and of having blonde hair that grew lighter in the summer.
This wasn't a typical set of ambitions, however, because Ronnie was a black boy growing up in Cincinnati’s west side.
Now, middle aged, Ronnie is a tenured professor of English at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, a public speaker, and actor, and uses this platform to promote what he calls a 'transgracial' identity.
Despite being born black and male, Ronnie - who uses the pronoun they - now identifies as a white woman, regardless of outward appearances, saying there is a 'repressed White female identity' inside them begging to be released
Ronnie dreamed of lying out in the sun getting a tan and of having blonde hair that grew lighter in the summer.
This wasn't a typical set of ambitions, however, because Ronnie was a black boy growing up in Cincinnati’s west side.
Now, middle aged, Ronnie is a tenured professor of English at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, a public speaker, and actor, and uses this platform to promote what he calls a 'transgracial' identity.
Despite being born black and male, Ronnie - who uses the pronoun they - now identifies as a white woman, regardless of outward appearances, saying there is a 'repressed White female identity' inside them begging to be released