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Oh, for heaven's sake. Accepting that some people might be gay does NOT TURN YOU GAY, or mean that they will all be hitting on you. Likewise, just because someone somewhere in this world was born female but has a male mind and personality and does something to fix the discrepancy, it doesn't magically turn *you* into a potential transsexual. Gender lines might be more blurred for some people because of some biological discrepancy between body and soul that can be redressed through surgery and hormone shots and cognitive therapy, but for most of us, they're not.
On the other hand, if, because a female-to-male transsexual with a still-functioning reproduction system wanted to have a child with his wife and solved this problem in a very practical way, you're obsessed with worry that your gender identity is suddenly at risk, then it probably already was loooong before you ever heard of Thomas Beatie.
Think about it, boys--maybe you really should have been born women.
Or would you prefer that I referred to you as ladies?
