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• Tuesday, October 9, 2007 05:15 AM

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  I'm a registered nurse, gay male, and have for years questioned the omni-inclusional addition of "Letters" to the LGB appelation. Psychiatric reasons for feeling your in the wrong body seem to me to be an entirely seperate concern to those of us who are certain of who we are and how we got here.

  Perhaps you should study the area before commenting from authority, but no-one can keep up with every development in medicine. I recommend "The Praeger Handbook of Transsexuality" as a good primer for a medical professional not specialising in the area.

  But this "transgendered" stuff is nonsense. A man can be mutilated into looking like a woman and vice versa, but there's still that pesky xx/xy chromosome stuff to deal with. You've either got testes and a prostate, or you've got ovaries and a uterus. You can't change sexes like you can religion. Maybe medical science will one day figure out a way to make a human look like a giraffe. But that person will only *look* like a giraffe.

  The "transgendered" are as clinically insane as somebody in the 21st century claiming to be Napoleon Bonaparte.

  A good friend of mine is 90% xx, 10% xy. But he's a guy. Another is a woman, she has 47xxy chromosomes, breasts, and more M than F genitalia. Some have ovotestes, a gland neither one or the other. Or one of each.

  Your Ignorance is excusable though, not many people know this stuff. But blame Reality for being insane, not the people suffering from these congenital conditions. They just get persecuted and called insane by bigots and the ignorant. Some do develop insanity as the result of the constant persecution of course.

  So what's really going on here? What nobody seems willing to come out and state is the underlying presumption that "the gays" will dump "the trannies" and go their separate way as soon as they get their version of ENDA passed. This is the real reason for the objection to Barney Frank's maneuver.

  Why are the Ts so insecure about this? Surely it's not a rational concern..

  Given the historical record, and the many comments on this forum about how GLBT should be GLB, the concern is all too rational. It's happened every other time, this is not new.

  Now a disclaimer: I'm Australian, and won't be affected either way. I'm also technically Intersexed, one of the weird "serials", though I identify more as TS. That my transition was mostly from natural causes is just a minor detail.

  —ZoeBrain Read ZoeBrain's other letters
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