If all product guides read like this, I might find it in my heart to be jolly this Christmas. If Cosmo girls, with their obsession with all things vaginal, wrote like this, I actually might be inspired to pick up that insipid little glossy. It's hardly a new story, but Ruth Thorning's examination is well worth reading. Instead of just raging against the machine, she stops to reflect on the personal, the local and the national costs of our country's appalling treatment of its veterans. Maybe it's just me, but I can't seem to open a magazine, peruse Publisher's Weekly or read a newspaper without stumbling across yet another published piece written about or by a real, live transsexual.
Every account reads the same.
He used to be a she, or vice versa. He or she had therapy, took hormones, got surgery. But, eventually, they did or didn't. The journey was the destination. Love is more important than gender.