DR. HOOK- Change up: Transgenders seek understanding
by JOHN HONG, MD, published June 12, 2008
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/06/12/DRHOOK-transgenders-0724.aspx (http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/06/12/DRHOOK-transgenders-0724.aspx)
Transgender people are the bravest people in the world. (If Barbra Streisand ever makes a sequel to Funny Girl, she can add those lyrics to her song "People.") In the USA, gender roles are narrowly defined and stringent. That's why I don't go to comedy clubs anymore-- 99 percent of all jokes are about how men and women are different or bashing gay people. I'd rather go to an Aryan Nation meeting.
So for a man to become a woman or for a woman to become a man in this society is harder than Rush Limbaugh and Michael J. Fox going out on a date.
What a great blog. Yet another cissexual. cisgendered person who gets it and publishes the fact they get it!! Ya know, we ARE going to change the world!!
Thanks, Z.
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