Letters to the Editor
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I want to get it, but I don't
I'm an open minded, progressive thinking guy. I don't want to sound like a rube for saying this, but I still don't get what is going on with a trans gendered person. How is wanting to mutilate your body so that it appears more like the other gender any different from plastic surgery addiction, mutliating your body so as to approach some nonsensical ideal?
While I would never openly mock this person, I will admit that I respect him about as much as I respect others who have taken extreme measures to change their appearance. I feel bad I feel this way. I feel that I should respect and support them the same way I do the gay and lesbian community, but I don't.
Maybe we've evolved to the point that most mainstream news sources won't mock Beatie, but I don't think we've evolved enough that the majority of the public know and can sympathize with what is going on with him.