Sports reporter to undergo sex change

I am *so* telling Swopes about this.

 

Because that's been tried. Reconciling the mind to the body has been tried. It doesn't work.

Reconciling the body to the mind has had much, much better success.

 

Humour
As I said, it's a survival skill.

I use stories like the one from a bubblehead friend of mine. She was being chatted up by a new nugget who'd just got his dolphins, and she had to bill and coo while he regaled her with tall tales and true from the USN and the Silent Service.
Of course, she'd been on more patrols than he'd had hot feeds. She nearly had a hernia trying to keep from laughing.

You keep those things in mind for the nights when a 15 year old boy from Kansas rings you in tears, because his neighbours have just poison baited his labrador puppy. Why? Because he has a girlfriend, and he has female chromosomes. That phonecall still sticks in my mind.

After that, it's difficult getting steamed up if someone calls you names on a forum. Not that anyone has, to me anyway, they've just expressed a difference of opinion. And opinions are like, well, sterns.

 

I'm not denying their validity as people. They clearly are people and don't deserve to be discriminated against. They also don't deserve special treatment nor do they deserve a special category of minority declared for them. I just think people are people and there are far too many ways we try and classify people so as to set them apart from everyone else. And there are certain groups who want desperately to have their state of mind declared biological so as to try and make sense of it.

I do believe that there are some clear cases of women being born with some male attributes and vice versa -- but that is a far leap from cross dressing and whatnot and I don't think it is nearly as rampant (sp?) as advocates would like us to believe.

 

I have lived as a man.

And its killing me. The help is to treat this condition. The treatment is to change my gender.

That's a proven, reliable course of action -- a rational and sane one.

What would you suggest the course of action would be to "help me embrace the fact I am a man?"

And I will ask once, and once only: Do not bring religion into this, please.

Religion is based on faith, not reason. In consideration of all those present -- who may not all believe in the same deity as you -- can we please avoid that turn of subject and stick to reason?

 

You are stating it is a state of mind and I'm saying if that is true, I would think in this society that is so dependent on psycho-babble and counseling, you could find a good counselor who could talk you through these feelings and urges.

 

I agree that they shouldn't be given special privvies. But do you think my children should suffer becuase osomeone doesn't like the fact I did what I needed to do for my life, and so they won't hire me, or they fire me for it?

Do you think its right what Largo did to Susan Stanton's Sone and wife -- they fired her becuase she was changing her gender.

I've been evicted for being TS. That is, I was fully paid on my rent, all my utilities, everything., My apartment was, of course, spotless.

Then the manager saw me walking out one day dressed for work. When I got home, I had an eviction notice.

I had no legal recourse.

So what's so special right-ish about my wanting those protections?

 

I've heard of gay people successfully going through this very same process.

 

So I take it that the special treatment that you would not want to see dyssonance and others take advantage of is surgery and hormone therapy that they are willing to pay for?

Interesting attitude.

 

And I said I did.

In fact, I have the *top* three in the State of AZ for it. And it costs me an arm and a leg.

Is there some other thing you were thinking of?

 

I don't know dysonance -- if I hired a woman to do a certain job that I felt was best done by a woman -- or vice versa -- and then said person changed his/her gender on me -- are you telling me as an employer I wouldn't at least have the right to consider firing - or reassigning said person?

 

But we've just been told that all research funds should go to Cancer Research and the like.

So if the research is flimsy (and I think "grossly inadequate" is more accurate, what's there is solid, just not enough of it)... well, perhaps some funding might be in order.