Dating withheld
Transmissions
Published 07/15/2010
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=141 (http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=141)
In last Sunday's The Ethicist column in the New York Times magazine, author Randy Cohen takes on the issue of transgender dating and disclosure. In the column, done as a typical "Dear Abby" style write-in question and answer piece, "Name Withheld" from New York writes about a man she has been dating.
"I am a straight woman," she writes, "and I was set up on a date with a man." They apparently got on well, but she was concerned about how cagey he was about his past. After some Internet queries, she discovered that her date was female to male, and this discovery was the end of their relationship.