Transgender, Gay Learning Curves

[MadelineB]

Life>Turning The Page:
Transgender, Gay Learning Curves
September 15, 2012. 1:17 am
Posted by: Jillian Page


http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/09/15/transgender-gay-learning-curves/

A reader wrote to me today to remind me that when it comes to prejudice, it works both ways: yes, some gay people might be transphobic, but there are also trans people who are homophobic. We can't generalize about people when it comes to homophobia and transphobia, but I bet the vast majority of gay people are not transphobic, just as the vast majority of trans people are not homophobic. But there will always be exceptions . . . enough said on that.

I was also thinking as I was driving home tonight that some people just don't get it. They don't understand, perhaps can't comprehend how people can have gender identity issues severe enough to require medical intervention as radical as sexual reassignment surgery. And there are other people who just can't understand how a man can have intimate feelings for a man, or a woman for a woman. As aforementioned reader says in her email to us, "It's a learning curve for all people I think to really understand where other people are!"

She is so right . . . as long as people are willing to learn, of course.