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Title: Father should teach tolerance
Post by: Hazumu on November 14, 2008, 07:23:58 AM
Columnist Carol McAlice Currie

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QuoteRecently, Hampton discovered that one of the women is a transgender woman — in this case, a man rejecting the gender ascribed to him at birth and now assuming the identity of a woman. The person refers to herself as "she."

Hampton said he's not ready to answer his son's questions about the woman's sexual reassignment and that there is nothing subtle about the individual's "dolled up like a woman" appearance that includes painted fingernails, make-up and done-up hair.

Hampton complained.