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Title: The courage to make a life-altering change
Post by: katia on December 02, 2007, 06:58:57 AM
The courage to make a life-altering change

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/NEWS/712020325
By Paul Brooks
12/2/2007

"Then, in February, the married man with a teenage son told his City Council he intended to have a sex change. He would become a she, a "transgender" person."

Title: Re: The courage to make a life-altering change
Post by: Hypatia on December 02, 2007, 09:07:06 PM
QuoteHis brother could not be reached, but has stopped talking to the media about her, Stanton said.
These days, journalists writing about transsexuals always have to juggle pronouns back and forth when talking about past and present. Sometimes you have to pity their fumbling attempts to get it right. This one got the wires crossed in the same sentence!
Title: Re: The courage to make a life-altering change
Post by: Wing Walker on December 03, 2007, 02:04:23 AM
Transsexual I am.  Transgender I am not.

Wing Walker