Laurie Penny: A sensational subject without the sensationLaurie Penny | Friday 18 November 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/laurie-penny-a-sensational-subject-without-the-sensation-6263872.htmlHow long does it take before you find out what a new friend has stashed in their pants? A year? A day? An entire lifetime, barring the occasional unfortunate bit of drunken exhibitionism? If you happen to be a transsexual person, the question "how's your junk?" often comes up before proper names are exchanged. To avoid this sort of fist-biting faux pas, those of us lucky enough to have been born in the right body could do worse than watch Channel 4's new consciousness-raising reality show, My Transsexual Summer.
