Open thread: Who are the 'real women?'
Filed by: Phil Reese
September 25, 2009 4:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/09/open_thread_who_are_the_real_women.phpI met a very special lady in 2003 named Rachel Crandall. Rachel is a lawyer and a philanthropist in Detroit. Rachel is one of the single nicest people I've ever met in my life. Rachel, though her driver's license says "F," is also transgender, and she has not undergone sexual reassignment surgery yet.
Then there's my friend Dallas (before that Vanessa and before that Derrick). Dallas sees herself as a woman, but sees gender-expression as more fluid. She lives as a woman, but she does not dress to pass. She dresses like a punk-rock tomboy. Dallas has fought very hard to be accepted as a woman, and at one time, passing was very important for Dallas. But Dallas did not want to give up who she was in order to express her true gender.
