ArkTimes.com – David Koon
At the center of a tabloid-style news story was a daughter and friend.
There are some things we need to get out of the way, up front.
First: When she died on July 11, Lucie Hamilton was a woman, but not in the biological sense. A little over twenty years ago, she was born as a little boy named David. At age 10 or 11, David came out to his mother as gay. Sometime between junior and senior high school, he told her that he believed he was transgender – essentially a girl trapped in a boy’s skin – and that he wanted to live his life someday as a woman.