Savage Love Letter of the Day
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:56 PM
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I'm a bisexual male. My last GF was interesex. She was raised as a boy, transitioned in her teens. We broke up but remain good friends. She has a profile on an online dating site and a friend of mine found it. On the profile she singles out that she's supportive of "queer/transgender" rights. She also mentions equal rights as a whole, but the transgender issue is the subject of an entirely separate paragraph. My friend asked me if she was trans, and i told him that she was born intersexed. He really had no reaction to this news.
I let her know that I said this and she flipped out. She said that I had violated her privacy. Did I?
information wants to be free. And, once shared, personal info about oneself—even deeply personal info—is notoriously hard to control