Transgender

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I read a book one time about a woman that was a transgender. She had had his sex changed after he was born. Sounds awful doesn't it? She was one of those born with both geniatelia. Her parents had been close minded enough to go ahead and choose for her and made him a male. Whoa! Let's play God shall we? Not! So, anyway-- he grew up and felt this was not the sex for him and went through the steps to change it and became a woman. I think this would be horrible.(Horrible that they made that decision for him) I am glad that I was born with the normal organs and all are working and I feel okay with it all. But, what about those that aren't? To have your parents make that very personal decision for you. Of course, that was in a generation when such things were very hush-hush and no one even spoke about such things. There was a father on Dr. Phil recently who was really having a problem with all of this. His son was open with him and had gone through this operation. The father was totally macho dad and freaked out over it. It would be a rough row to hoe to have a darling boy, have him born healthy and want all the best for him and then....oops! Not going that way Dad. Right? I have known several gays, lesbians, transgenders, transvestities, etc. in my over sixty years on the planet. Have had several meetings and run ins both. My third husband and I were going through San Francisco back in the 70's and I had to insist that he stop so I could go potty. Quickest place was a bar so I run in, he's behind me and waits in the bar while I go to go. I come out a few minutes later to find my husband standing up against the wall near the rest rooms with this stricken look on his face. When I was able to get him to speak he told me he had just gotten his first and, what he hoped would be his last, proposition. I had to laugh. It was a gay bar! Another time I was friends with a gay man when I worked at a answering service in the mid 80's. He was in his early 20's and was a clothes w*ore. He wore a suit and he looks like a NYC lawyer. He was handsome. He and I didn't have a good beginning. He wanted more young people at the AS. But he and I became close friends. He told me a lot about himself and I learned a lot about gays from him. He became my stylist, my comrade, my confidante, and very dear friend. Having a sensitive, caring person like this in my dugout was very good for me at that point in my 30+ life. I hope I gave him somewhere near as much in return. I did help him with a college paper he had to write one time. I help him write it, then I typed it up for him and he got an A+ on it. The subject matter was about his psyche and why and what made him what he was from his standpoint. There weren't many who could help him with the paper since I was one of the very few that knew his story. One night we went out to the club. It was called the Emerald Club and was a gay bar. He introduced me to his friends. One of these was a transvestite so emaculately dressed any woman with half a feminine bone in her body would have been jealous. Her make-up was so nicely done. Everything was perfect and she/he looked so pretty. I was wowed. So, fast forward to the other day when this father was on Dr. Phil. Transgender, gays, lesbians, transgenders, transvestites, all seem to have this same characteristic. They are stubborn. They have to go through quite a long procedure before they can actually have the full change over operation/surgery. I have no idea how that must be for them but I solute them. In some countries, even in this 21st century world, it is actually AGAINST THE LAW to be gay. Gays are being slammed, beaten even killed right here in the U.S. of A. Why? Because the person doing these acts is ......what? scared, fearful,egotistical what? Homophobic idiots?