Right-wing nonsense

http://www.bhpioneer.com/articles/2008/09/08/opinion/doc48c558fddae14125214543.txt
9/8/2008

Transgender. I think it's appropriate to treat transgender people as the sex they believe themselves to be - whether or not I believe that deep down they are really still their birth sex. I completely respect that some people disagree. But are these values more important than everything? For example, transgender women are at high risk for rape (and thus contracting HIV), because they are the only women in a violent, predatory, predominantly heterosexual male environment.