http://www.torontolife.com/features/naughty-professor/?pageno=1"Meet Michael Gilbert, York philosophy prof, family man, committed cross-dresser By David Macfarlane
I am driving in a car with a man who is wearing a skirt. This is a first for me, and while it may make for an arresting opening sentence, it is not, in reality, so very unusual. One of the few things that anyone knows for certain about trans-gendered people is this: there are quite a lot of them. The term has an elastic meaning: it includes everyone from men who get a kick out of occasionally wearing panties under their business suits to transsexuals who, by means of hormone treatment and surgery, are going through the long and difficult process of aligning their bodies with what they believe to be their true gender identity. In a city as large as Toronto, we probably rub shoulders regularly with both, and with many of the points in between."
