内容摘要：celebrated commencement on Thursday at a pivotal time for the Ivy League school, cheering speakers who emphasized maintaining a diverse and international student body and standing up for truth in the face of attacks

celebrated commencement on Thursday at a pivotal time for the Ivy League school, cheering speakers who emphasized maintaining a diverse and international student body and standing up for truth in the face of attacks

Bambi and her black boa, a whisper from her glamorous past. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)In 1950s Paris, though, Bambi bought hormones casually over-the-counter, “like salt and pepper at the grocery.”

“It was much freer then,” but stakes were high, she said.Sisters were jailed, raped, driven into sex work. One comrade died after botched gender reassignment surgery in Casablanca.“There was only Casablanca,” she emphasized, with one doctor performing the high-risk surgeries. Bambi waited cautiously until her best friends, Coccinelle and April Ashley, had safely undergone procedures from the late 50s before doing the same herself.

Each night required extraordinary courage. Post-war Paris was scarred, haunted. The Carrousel wasn’t mere entertainment — but a one-fingered salute to the past in heels and eyeliner.“There was this after-the-war feeling — people wanted to have fun,” Bambi recalled. With no television, the cabarets were packed every night. “You could feel it — people demanded to laugh, to enjoy themselves, to be happy. They wanted to live again … to forget the miseries of the war.”

In 1974, sensing a shift, Bambi quietly stepped away from celebrity, unwilling to become “an aging showgirl.” Swiftly obtaining legal female identity in Algeria, she became a respected teacher and Sorbonne scholar, hiding her dazzling past beneath Marcel Proust and careful anonymity for decades.

Despite what she’s witnessed, or perhaps because of it, she’s remarkably skeptical about recent controversies around gender. This transgender pioneer feels wokeism has moved too quickly, fueling a backlash.But where does organ transplantation come in? There aren’t enough donated human organs to go around so researchers are

— and that same alpha-gal sugar is a big barrier. It causes the human immune system to immediately destroy a transplanted organ from an ordinary pig. So the first gene that Revivicor inactivated as it began genetically modifying pigs for animal-to-human transplants was the one that produces alpha-gal.While xenotransplants still are experimental, Revivicor’s

won Food and Drug Administration approval in 2020 to be used as a source of food, and a potential source for human therapeutics. The FDA determined there was no detectable level of alpha-gal across multiple generations of the pigs.Revivicor, a subsidiary of United Therapeutics, isn’t a food company — it researches xenotransplantation. Nor has it yet found anyone in the agriculture business interested in selling GalSafe pork.