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My affection and good feeling for the beautiful state of Florida has dimmed today, given the campaign of hatred, contempt and intolerance which is in progress against Largo City Manager Steve Stanton, who has revealed after years of angst and pain that he is a transsexual and will undergo an operation to change himself to a woman.
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The newly-found feelings of contempt for Mr. Stanton are spawned by ignorance. A transsexual is not a criminal, not a degenerate, rather is someone who is born into a body which is not their true sex. No one chooses to become a transsexual and to expose themselves and their family to the type of misery and condemnation to which Mr. Stanton has been subjected.