I'm releasing a lot of cleansing tears...it was so hard to be who we are back then. No one understood. Caroline helped our planet to evolve. So much love and gratitude.
@@you-5-iver804but here you are AVOIDING your own responsibility as a PRIVILEGED member of society, which is prevalent in abusing its own children and exposing them to violence. I dont see you bleating about that. Instead you come here banging your drum about something that has little affect on you. Look at police figures in domestic violence between hetero cis male/female relationships and how children have to endure this. It's far more prevalent. Yet here you are being sucked in to a machine that likes to brain wash the ones with low IQ. I guess you got sucked in too.
Tula went threw a lot, at the time it was the late 80s early 90s, even when they came for her she came back with grace & class, I was just transitioning at that time she was such a role mode for me & many of my trans friends ,Tula is a transsexual Icon & way before many of the others, way before it was "safe" & it is much easier to transition also she is all natural, her beauty is her beauty, I have the upmost respect for Caroline 'Tula" & all that she has done for our community
Great great video.... you truly are the biggest hero in my life. I first saw you on Donahue in the 80’s , for the first time I saw someone like me...that filled me with hope
Fabulous! Thank Goddess for you. I was 5 years behind you and because of you being outed (even though that was horrible) I knew I there were others out there and I could live authentically starting as a teen. Unfortunately I had to run away from home to do it but at least I knew I could. Love to you and your family Carolyn. Love Mardi
Hi Caroline! I was referred to as a "Bond girl" by a professor I was dating because of my varied interests in yoga, aikido, archery, modelling, and more. I found that description to be apt since you were one of my idols growing up. When he found out about my past (he snooped), he was taken aback and broke up with me, saying "I’ll get back to you at some point...but this takes processing. And I can only guess how difficult this has been for you so I am sorry I am not better equipped to handle it." This has happened many times over the course of my life so I just have to say that many American men are really small minded. Even the ones who say they are open-minded are really not. Thank you for this montage. It is beautiful!
Caroline, I periodically come and simply re-watch this video. It is so inspiring. You are amazing. I thank you so much for being a friend. Great blessings to you in the New Year.
I remember seeing those disgusting news articles about you Caroline. They prompted me to buy “My Story” - and from that I’ve been supporting Trans Rights ever since. A massive thank you for you BEING YOU. x
Caroline, your friendship is something I treasure. You shine like a true angel and that is because you are an angel. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you. Xx
Such a beautiful tribute Caroline, watching this brought tears to my eyes. Your mothers love was unconditional. Got me thinking of my own lovely mum, as you know her name was also Doreen.. and like your lovely mum she was too a loving supportive mother.. ❤ 💕
As an FTM I would like to thank you for putting yourself on the line for the trans community. What a warm, loving family you have - I'm sure you know how lucky you are to have had such a lovely supportive (and attractive) Mum.. At the end of the 70's/early 80's both you and Stephen Whittle are largely responsible for me becoming aware that I could at last "be me". Over the next 10 years others came forward and started to tell their stories in the media -GREAT. Then in the mid-90's we started to hear about little kids (4/5/6 years of age) being able to tell their parents how they felt and since then there have been numerous TV programmes documenting this -GREAT. HOWEVER - suddenly we have this ANTI TRANS movement which has started to grow rapidly in just a few short years, i.e. TRANS WOMEN AREN'T WOMEN. Academics (one of which is a lesbian) and others are furthering their careers/boosting their bank balance by writing books SUPPORTING THIS MOVEMENT which only serves to whip up prejudice and hatred towards trans people - DESPICABLE. Even some Gays are starting to turn against us - mumblings of wanting the T removed from the LGBT acronym. So what has gone wrong? Here are my thoughts 1) creation/talk of gender fluidity, non-binary and all the other myriad gender labels which quite honestly for the life of me I can't fathom. The typical transgender person would have been aware from a very early age (perhaps as young as 3 or 4) that they are in the 'wrong' body - we would see it as 'binary', i.e. I have a girl's body but I am a boy or vice versa. 2) Well i think some Gays think they are home and dry - no longer afraid to come out - everyone knows someone who is gay - they can get married, have their own kids or adopt. 3) Apparently, suddenly an inordinate amount of young teenage girls are transitioning (they call it RAPID onset transgenderism) only to then 'de-transition' in just a few short years having realised they weren't transgender - one of those girls has just successfully sued the NHS here in the UK. I think for these girls maybe transgender is the new "anorexia/bulimia/self-harming", i.e. if I do this maybe I will feel better about myself (there are quite a lot of videos on RUclips posted by some of these girls). One older person, an FTM, called Debbie transitioned - she tells her story on RUclips -she had been sexually abused as a child and thought becoming a man would help - it didn't. This all begs the question "where does that leave the typical transgender person?" Due to the foregoing the 'true' transgenders are going through a terrible period of "backlash". What has transpired in very recent years has put the 'typical' transgender community' back YEARS in terms of acceptance. I fear for those 'typical' transgender people coming forward for reassignment in the future. They will probably have to go through very lengthy psychoanalysis/counselling - the NHS will ensure they are not likely to be sued again for 'misdiagnosis'. If people are made to wait an inordinate amount of time before being allowed to transition I wonder how many lives will be lost? We really need to combat this backlash to show that we are NOT going to allow our community to be lumped in with either the 'gender fluid' mob or 'the 'Rapid onset transgenderism of young teenage girls who so obviously are NOT transgender'. READ THIS: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/this-bus-is-on-a-road-trip-to-convince-you-that-transgender
As a child, my favorite Bond film (besides Goldfinger and Goldeneye) was For Your Eyes Only. Quite a bit of foreshadowing in my life that I never understood at the time.
You are a force of nature Caroline , you and a few other are the people who are the reason trans people have some rights now , you fought like a tigress in the face of prejudice and stupidity , God bless you X
Exceptional video - wish it was longer. Carolyn/Tula: You are the REAL DEAL You've impressed me from the first time I saw you on (of all places) the "Jerry Springer Show". You’ve been blessed with inner and outer beauty that surpass that of most mortals. Few if any come close. You've put yourself out there to live your dream life. If you weren’t so exceptional your gender would NEVER have been questioned, but I can’t imagine you as anyone other than yourself. Please be careful and don’t allow yourself to be used by others to support political agendas. You’ve already given more than enough. You will always be loved.
@@vford1000 My mind may be a bit trusty but my recollection is seeing "TULA" for the first time on one of Jerry Springer's early legitimate shows in the early 1990's. I was totally impressed with this beautiful bright woman who I always think of whenever transsexuals were discussed. I had recently moved to FL and watched TV on a 12 foot large satellite dish. Could I have seen a different show in another time zone? Sally Jessy Raphael was on either before of after Springer back then. If I am mistaken it will ruin my memory that Jerry Springer used to have a pretty good legitimate talk show. From that time forward, TULA became and remains the only transsexual women who is ALL WOMAN in my eyes. I missed the Donahue shows and other TULA appearances now on RUclips. I'm not much of a TV watcher and have always held strong opinions about pretense. I'm not into revues or show business and any movies past ones made in the 1980's I can see for the first time. Defining male and female behavior is part of socialization. People may be born biologically male. female or mixed, or other, but for some reason society defines what and who one is SUPPOSED to like and how they are SUPPOSED to behave according to their physical appearance. I feel bad for those who must undergo surgery to correct biological assignment mistakes, but for me, attraction and orientation are defined by who you want to kiss romantically. The gender of one's love object should not be dictated by society as humans cannot force their feelings. TULA has always been my example of the REAL DEAL - a rare individual who corrected a natural mistake and was able to make herself whole and intact. TULA would be just another human being with her own quirks if she wasn't blessed with such beauty, intelligence, and personality. She can't help but stand out wherever she goes. I've met few transgender individuals who've managed to brave society's condemnation and emerge as healthy intact humans. All have been recognizable as transgender to me. All show many physical and mental scars, all except TULA, who would be what I consider a normal straight woman even if she liked to fix cars, play in the mud, and drive a bulldozer for a living. That's why I was and remain so impressed by this woman. If my first introduction to TULA was not an early Jerry Springer Show as I recall, whose show was it when I was so impressed?
I can't even imagine being as beautiful as you are, especially back in the 80s when people weren't modifying themselves and people where natural, you must of been stared at everywhere you went. You are the real deal and an icon to every trans woman everywhere. Your spirit and story will live on forever, thank you for giving us someone to look up to.
It's hard to be an individual. There are so many people who are full of fear and insecurity and they attack those with the courage to be themselves. But life is always a battle of some sort. And some of us are put here to raise questions and to unsettle widely held conceptions. Humanity is moved forward by individuals. Virtually all the great geniuses of history encountered great opposition to their ideas in their time. You have to be strong but you also need to rise above hate. So many people lead fearful, cowardly lives. That is a great punishment in itself.
It's a shame what trans people have to go through, even now. One of my best friends is trans (MtF) and she's the most beautiful, sweetest woman I ever met. I hope I live to see a day when we get past these prejudices and accept people for who they are.
There is only ONE love and ONE peace and His Name is Jesus Christ ! Until we know HIM then we will never have LOVE or PEACE ! Read the scriptures. King James Version and SEEK JESUS NOW and LIVE !
I LOST MY YOUTH TRYING TO GIVE EVERYBODY ELSE'S BELIEFS AND EXPECTATIONS AND AT 60 UNMARRIED , PARENTS LONG GONE SAID ENOUGH IS ENOUGH WITH MY SHARADE AND TRANSITIONED -- NO REGRETS EITHER SINCE I NEW AT 5 IN 1963 !!
I realized who I was back in 1972 , I was watching Tom Snyder and he had Canary Conn on his show and that was at 2:00 am , and that hit me like a baseball bat in the head ! [ I'm transsexual ] OMG , I btried that deep inside along with massive depression , it came out like a volcano in 2015 ! With 34 years of marriage and a very special wife which we have been through hell ! I tried to transition back in 1984 , I was on two Estrogen pills , 1shot every 2 weeks for 1 year and then I met my wife an than I stop to be her husband ! I had all of my operations and we are very happy but she is not a lesbian !
What's it like being a part of cis-male dominant world that cheats and beats their women in front of their children? Domestic abuse between male-female partnerships is rife. All you have to do is look up the figures to realise just what a problem it is, yet here you are, under the video of someone that has no affect on you, and you're crying hysterically! Instead of being a diq, focus on your own life. You're definitely the 'freak' here, triggered by someone else's life 😂😂😂
I'm releasing a lot of cleansing tears...it was so hard to be who we are back then. No one understood. Caroline helped our planet to evolve. So much love and gratitude.
This thing devolved humanity. We have child mutilation and corrupt lies being spread. Grow a brain.
@@you-5-iver804but here you are AVOIDING your own responsibility as a PRIVILEGED member of society, which is prevalent in abusing its own children and exposing them to violence. I dont see you bleating about that. Instead you come here banging your drum about something that has little affect on you.
Look at police figures in domestic violence between hetero cis male/female relationships and how children have to endure this. It's far more prevalent. Yet here you are being sucked in to a machine that likes to brain wash the ones with low IQ. I guess you got sucked in too.
I was at Queen's last concert with Freddie Mercury at Knebworth in 1986. This song couldn't be more appropriate. Good luck and good health.
Like yourself. I am incredibly blessed to have a very loving and supportive mother. How proud she was of you xxx
I have an accepting mother too Caroline. I wish more families were like yours and mine. May your Mother R.I.P. x
Caroline, Wow- such an awesome video and a lovey tribute to your sweet Mother; especially on Mother's Day! God Bless you and your family, lovely lady!
Caroline, AKA Tula , you will always be the ultimate Bond girl! ♥
Totally agree
I’m so sad about your mom, May she Rest In Peace. I loved seeing her support you at every step.
What a lovely compilation video. So beautiful.....the private family pics exquisite....Well done with this video
Tula went threw a lot, at the time it was the late 80s early 90s, even when they came for her she came back with grace & class, I was just transitioning at that time she was such a role mode for me & many of my trans friends ,Tula is a transsexual Icon & way before many of the others, way before it was "safe" & it is much easier to transition also she is all natural, her beauty is her beauty, I have the upmost respect for Caroline 'Tula" & all that she has done for our community
Thank You, Caroline for your love and strength, you have lived a life many only dream of having had the courage to make happen ❤💋
Great great video.... you truly are the biggest hero in my life. I first saw you on Donahue in the 80’s , for the first time I saw someone like me...that filled me with hope
Fabulous! Thank Goddess for you.
I was 5 years behind you and because of you being outed (even though that was horrible) I knew I there were others out there and I could live authentically starting as a teen.
Unfortunately I had to run away from home to do it but at least I knew I could. Love to you and your family Carolyn. Love Mardi
Hi Caroline! I was referred to as a "Bond girl" by a professor I was dating because of my varied interests in yoga, aikido, archery, modelling, and more. I found that description to be apt since you were one of my idols growing up. When he found out about my past (he snooped), he was taken aback and broke up with me, saying "I’ll get back to you at some point...but this takes processing. And I can only guess how difficult this has been for you so I am sorry I am not better equipped to handle it." This has happened many times over the course of my life so I just have to say that many American men are really small minded. Even the ones who say they are open-minded are really not. Thank you for this montage. It is beautiful!
Caroline, I periodically come and simply re-watch this video. It is so inspiring. You are amazing. I thank you so much for being a friend. Great blessings to you in the New Year.
I remember seeing those disgusting news articles about you Caroline. They prompted me to buy “My Story” - and from that I’ve been supporting Trans Rights ever since. A massive thank you for you BEING YOU. x
Fabulous my dear friend.....Simply fabulous....
Thank you for writing your book, sharing your videos, and for just being you.
I read your book many years ago, I loved it
Caroline, your friendship is something I treasure. You shine like a true angel and that is because you are an angel. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you. Xx
Such a beautiful tribute Caroline, watching this brought tears to my eyes. Your mothers love was unconditional. Got me thinking of my own lovely mum, as you know her name was also Doreen.. and like your lovely mum she was too a loving supportive mother.. ❤ 💕
As an FTM I would like to thank you for putting yourself on the line for the trans community. What a warm, loving family you have - I'm sure you know how lucky you are to have had such a lovely supportive (and attractive) Mum.. At the end of the 70's/early 80's both you and Stephen Whittle are largely responsible for me becoming aware that I could at last "be me". Over the next 10 years others came forward and started to tell their stories in the media -GREAT. Then in the mid-90's we started to hear about little kids (4/5/6 years of age) being able to tell their parents how they felt and since then there have been numerous TV programmes documenting this -GREAT. HOWEVER - suddenly we have this ANTI TRANS movement which has started to grow rapidly in just a few short years, i.e. TRANS WOMEN AREN'T WOMEN. Academics (one of which is a lesbian) and others are furthering their careers/boosting their bank balance by writing books SUPPORTING THIS MOVEMENT which only serves to whip up prejudice and hatred towards trans people - DESPICABLE. Even some Gays are starting to turn against us - mumblings of wanting the T removed from the LGBT acronym. So what has gone wrong? Here are my thoughts 1) creation/talk of gender fluidity, non-binary and all the other myriad gender labels which quite honestly for the life of me I can't fathom. The typical transgender person would have been aware from a very early age (perhaps as young as 3 or 4) that they are in the 'wrong' body - we would see it as 'binary', i.e. I have a girl's body but I am a boy or vice versa. 2) Well i think some Gays think they are home and dry - no longer afraid to come out - everyone knows someone who is gay - they can get married, have their own kids or adopt. 3) Apparently, suddenly an inordinate amount of young teenage girls are transitioning (they call it RAPID onset transgenderism) only to then 'de-transition' in just a few short years having realised they weren't transgender - one of those girls has just successfully sued the NHS here in the UK. I think for these girls maybe transgender is the new "anorexia/bulimia/self-harming", i.e. if I do this maybe I will feel better about myself (there are quite a lot of videos on RUclips posted by some of these girls). One older person, an FTM, called Debbie transitioned - she tells her story on RUclips -she had been sexually abused as a child and thought becoming a man would help - it didn't. This all begs the question "where does that leave the typical transgender person?" Due to the foregoing the 'true' transgenders are going through a terrible period of "backlash". What has transpired in very recent years has put the 'typical' transgender community' back YEARS in terms of acceptance. I fear for those 'typical' transgender people coming forward for reassignment in the future. They will probably have to go through very lengthy psychoanalysis/counselling - the NHS will ensure they are not likely to be sued again for 'misdiagnosis'. If people are made to wait an inordinate amount of time before being allowed to transition I wonder how many lives will be lost? We really need to combat this backlash to show that we are NOT going to allow our community to be lumped in with either the 'gender fluid' mob or 'the 'Rapid onset transgenderism of young teenage girls who so obviously are NOT transgender'. READ THIS: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/this-bus-is-on-a-road-trip-to-convince-you-that-transgender
Thank you Caroline, I love this video ...you are my Hero ..I love you
As a child, my favorite Bond film (besides Goldfinger and Goldeneye) was For Your Eyes Only. Quite a bit of foreshadowing in my life that I never understood at the time.
Beautiful video, Caroline! 💙💚💜
Lovely touching video, you truly are a class act Caroline .
You are a force of nature Caroline , you and a few other are the people who are the reason trans people have some rights now , you fought like a tigress in the face of prejudice and stupidity , God bless you X
I adore my mother just like you do , may she rest in peace the lovely angel x
Exceptional video - wish it was longer. Carolyn/Tula: You are the REAL DEAL You've impressed me from the first time I saw you on (of all places) the "Jerry Springer Show". You’ve been blessed with inner and outer beauty that surpass that of most mortals. Few if any come close. You've put yourself out there to live your dream life. If you weren’t so exceptional your gender would NEVER have been questioned, but I can’t imagine you as anyone other than yourself.
Please be careful and don’t allow yourself to be used by others to support political agendas. You’ve already given more than enough. You will always be loved.
She was never on Jerry Springer Jessica
@@vford1000 My mind may be a bit trusty but my recollection is seeing "TULA" for the first time on one of Jerry Springer's early legitimate shows in the early 1990's. I was totally impressed with this beautiful bright woman who I always think of whenever transsexuals were discussed. I had recently moved to FL and watched TV on a 12 foot large satellite dish. Could I have seen a different show in another time zone? Sally Jessy Raphael was on either before of after Springer back then. If I am mistaken it will ruin my memory that Jerry Springer used to have a pretty good legitimate talk show. From that time forward, TULA became and remains the only transsexual women who is ALL WOMAN in my eyes. I missed the Donahue shows and other TULA appearances now on RUclips. I'm not much of a TV watcher and have always held strong opinions about pretense. I'm not into revues or show business and any movies past ones made in the 1980's I can see for the first time. Defining male and female behavior is part of socialization. People may be born biologically male. female or mixed, or other, but for some reason society defines what and who one is SUPPOSED to like and how they are SUPPOSED to behave according to their physical appearance. I feel bad for those who must undergo surgery to correct biological assignment mistakes, but for me, attraction and orientation are defined by who you want to kiss romantically. The gender of one's love object should not be dictated by society as humans cannot force their feelings. TULA has always been my example of the REAL DEAL - a rare individual who corrected a natural mistake and was able to make herself whole and intact. TULA would be just another human being with her own quirks if she wasn't blessed with such beauty, intelligence, and personality. She can't help but stand out wherever she goes. I've met few transgender individuals who've managed to brave society's condemnation and emerge as healthy intact humans. All have been recognizable as transgender to me. All show many physical and mental scars, all except TULA, who would be what I consider a normal straight woman even if she liked to fix cars, play in the mud, and drive a bulldozer for a living. That's why I was and remain so impressed by this woman. If my first introduction to TULA was not an early Jerry Springer Show as I recall, whose show was it when I was so impressed?
Was it Donahue?
@@vford1000Donahue & also on Geraldo. The former treated her with total respect. The latter used her as a curiosity for his punchlines.
Caroline Cossey is a trailblazer & an icon!
Sorry for your loss Caroline from trans one woman to another who lost both parents
This was beautiful very well put together
I can't even imagine being as beautiful as you are, especially back in the 80s when people weren't modifying themselves and people where natural, you must of been stared at everywhere you went. You are the real deal and an icon to every trans woman everywhere. Your spirit and story will live on forever, thank you for giving us someone to look up to.
Oh！Great Video.Thank you.
Wow!! That blew me away!!!! God bless you beautiful & your beautiful mamma #activist #dignity #standtall
Amazing video and right music. Freddie also suffered for tabloid press when he was sick.
I love you!!!!! 💘 thank you for being you and being brave
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you Caroline
Can I just say you have been an inspiration for me and kept me going through my youth in the early 90s I bow down to your bravery…
I love you Caroline , your great !
So beautiful and statuesque. are you still in Atlanta?
Loved this
Lovely video, Caroline x
Beautiful video. ❤️
You are beautiful Caroline!💜
You go girl.
Respect! You are my inspiration
Just wanted to say I was just mesmerized by your beautiful smile from the start you are one of the original trans women out there!
Sorry about your Mum
It's hard to be an individual. There are so many people who are full of fear and insecurity and they attack those with the courage to be themselves. But life is always a battle of some sort. And some of us are put here to raise questions and to unsettle widely held conceptions. Humanity is moved forward by individuals. Virtually all the great geniuses of history encountered great opposition to their ideas in their time. You have to be strong but you also need to rise above hate. So many people lead fearful, cowardly lives. That is a great punishment in itself.
Beautiful Tula❤
It's a shame what trans people have to go through, even now. One of my best friends is trans (MtF) and she's the most beautiful, sweetest woman I ever met. I hope I live to see a day when we get past these prejudices and accept people for who they are.
So inspiring xxx
💜💜💜💜👸🏼💜💜💜💜
She is not a freak she is a beautiful girl!
You were never a "man" sweetie. I hope these days find you in health, worry free and living in the peace you deserve...
🤗❤🙋♀️
There is only ONE love and ONE peace and His Name is Jesus Christ !
Until we know HIM then we will never have LOVE or PEACE !
Read the scriptures. King James Version and SEEK JESUS NOW and LIVE !
you're an icon forever
Phases patterns movements moments, lost now?
I LOST MY YOUTH TRYING TO GIVE EVERYBODY ELSE'S BELIEFS AND EXPECTATIONS AND AT 60 UNMARRIED , PARENTS LONG GONE SAID ENOUGH IS ENOUGH WITH MY SHARADE AND TRANSITIONED -- NO REGRETS EITHER SINCE I NEW AT 5 IN 1963 !!
I realized who I was back in 1972 , I was watching Tom Snyder and he had Canary Conn on his show and that was at 2:00 am , and that hit me like a baseball bat in the head ! [ I'm transsexual ] OMG , I btried that deep inside along with massive depression , it came out like a volcano in 2015 ! With 34 years of marriage and a very special wife which we have been through hell ! I tried to transition back in 1984 , I was on two Estrogen pills , 1shot every 2 weeks for 1 year and then I met my wife an than I stop to be her husband ! I had all of my operations and we are very happy but she is not a lesbian !
Its a Woman ♀️
Alright mate? What's it like to be a freak?
Don't talk about yourself like that 😏
What's it like being a part of cis-male dominant world that cheats and beats their women in front of their children? Domestic abuse between male-female partnerships is rife. All you have to do is look up the figures to realise just what a problem it is, yet here you are, under the video of someone that has no affect on you, and you're crying hysterically!
Instead of being a diq, focus on your own life. You're definitely the 'freak' here, triggered by someone else's life 😂😂😂
Ask your mother😊