For once some good reportage giving an adequate account of the great diversity under the big tent of so-called transgender. It brought out that while many are gender-fluid or genderqueer, many transsexuals are not fluid but feel we belong in one half of the binary. And that not all transsexuals are necessarily certain about their gender from the age of 3, but come to understand themselves gradually. Too often I see articles that look at one person and then write as if that individual's viewpoint speaks for all so-called transgender people, which can really distort the public's understanding of what is really going on, and perpetuate stereotypes. Lazy journalists. This one was better.
But again the spectre of third-gender identity on passports. I have much fear that if that is put into effect, all transsexual people will be forced to use that and given no choice to identify as men or women. What Americans aren't aware of is that Nepal uses the Hindu gender classification, in which we are all "third gender, neither man nor woman," and I emphatically reject that being imposed on all of us against our will. There should be some way to accommodate androgynes, to be fair to everyone, but not at the expense of my womanhood.
