Too bad, they lose. I am well aware of how volatile an issue it is in our community and how personal it can feel. Over the past decade I've accumulated masses of information and engaged in much study, reflection, thoughtful discussion and process with a variety of people representing diverse perspectives. In conversations with transgendered individuals and their supporters, some of whom I like and some not, I am aware of their pain and try not to add to it. There is more to learn.
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Notable and new, to me at least, was the spectacle of matronly gents dressing up as their mothers, aunties and schoolmarms in dowdy conservative outfits, cheerlessly dispensing disapproval over all. If I was FTM I wouldn't want to think about that either. Impatience for male power and privilege combined with monumental lack of faith in the future of women could explain it. How instantly gratifying, how perfectly consumer friendly. This postmodern all-American quick fix comes complete with academic sanction.