One more reminder of why going the non-op route is more problematic.
It would be a lot easier for the public to deal with if we were all op (op-er? op-ist? op-ulent?) transsexuals. The non-op ones complicate it hugely.
I'm not suggesting that op transsexuals throw non-ops under the bus to achieve equal rights, though--because it wouldn't work anyway. Op transsexuals still get discriminated against. Lots of bigots out there say it makes no difference to them if you get hormones or surgery, in their view you'll always be the gender you were assigned at birth. They refuse to understand what transsexualism really means. So even if the movement is limited to only ops, we would still face bigotry from some quarters.
This story, though, is an example of the dividing line between op and non-op, because a post-op transsexual would not have faced discrimination in this instance and the problem came about specifically because of her non-op status.
