Ex-fighter pilot listens to feminine voice he’d tried to ignore

Posted on June 9, 2009
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Darlene Fike shifts in a chocolate brown recliner seated on a heating pad in a small two-story apartment near the University of Memphis and recounts her life.

It hasn’t been long since the last remnants of Darlene’s manhood were surgically removed, and she’s sore.

Bronzed baby shoes that would fit a boy or girl sit near the television along with a picture of a mother and little boy in a sailor suit.

Darlene, 58, gingerly climbed the stairs to use the bathroom, past a framed box of ribbons and medals, military honors presented to David, the man she used to be.

Two years ago, David, a retired Air National Guard Lieutenant Colonel who served as a navigator and fighter pilot, told his wife, Mary, something he’d kept inside all his life. He was a woman in a man’s body.

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Memphis Commercial Appeal

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