"Sheila"

Directed by Jeffrey Schwarz

Filmed in 1970 "Sheila" is a portrait of an Irish transsexual individual who lives on the streets of London.

This show was aired on British television in 1970. Soon after several homeless shelters were opened and Sheila was invited to live in one of them.

Note:If anyone knows the whereabouts of Sheila today please advise us: [email protected]

 

"What a sad story and yet it shows the persistent spirit of survival against all the odds.  My heart went out to Sheila.  And how amazing that she asserts so firmly that her condition is biological and not psychological thereby antedating by many years the modern understanding of gender dysphoria."

Dr. Rosemary A. JONES
AUSTRALIA