Respectfully, I disagree. Unlike, say, race where people can cherrypick descriptions for themselves and don't have to do much apart from wear that label, people who are transgender tend to have gender realignment operations, which is, just about the most traumatic, prolonged thing I can imagine...
You saying about ignorance. Apart from Jamie Lee Curtis and the few others I mentioned we're all ignorant about whether she was born with meat and two veg. Don't worry, it wasn't a pop at you.
Agreed. A gay mate of mine once said that the idea of choosing your sexuality is nonsense especially for schoolkids because of the amount of abuse they would get and also the angst and internal grief that coming to terms with being gay causes. I would imagine that this is even worse if you...
Ha! There's irony. No-one except JLC, her parents and her doctors really know the truth. http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/jamie.asp
On the wider debate there's an interesting narrative developing with the minority rights movement. I think gay men have been so successful in challenging...