Pleased someone has asked this and it is not just me! I think "he" may be a transgender woman........... does anyone know?
There is no information that implies he was a woman.
Gurtrude Ederle and Matthew Webb.
Apparently no one knows, as clearly Matthew keeps his private life private - which for a biographer of other people's lives demonstrates a strange unwillingness to give future writers the sort of information his career has thrived on. Being married and having a wife with a child is no indicator of his assigned natal gender/sex. Many transgender men (who were born female bodied) marry, and their spouses will have either already had a child(ren), or they will have donor insemination in order to conceive, or they may have adopted children. What is interesting is that Mr Dennison has not denied what is clearly a common question on the internet. He is entitled not to answer those questions, but, as an out trans man myself with a wife and family, I feel he would clearly gain nothing but respect if he chose to come out as a trans man (if he is one).
Willa Ford played Claire Dennison in Impulse, the film where that quote came from.
The cast of The Bouquet - 2007 includes: Larry Feurzeig as Man Alexandra Matthew as Woman
The cast of Anniversary - 2011 includes: Natalia Longley as Woman Matthew Stefanson as Man
The cast of The Conversation - 2007 includes: Matthew Blashaw as Man Kerry Perdue as Woman
Dick Dennison's birth name is Richard Dennison.
Matthew Weiner has written: 'Mad men' -- subject(s): Advertising, Advertising agencies, Businessmen, Drama, Man-woman relationships, Nineteen sixties, Television programs
The cast of A New Woman - 2010 includes: Matthew Davoren as Matthew
The address of the Dennison Branch Library is: 15 N. 4Th Street, Dennison, 44621 1218
Rick Dennison's birth name is Rick Steven Dennison.