>> Like a couple of others here I've watched a colleague transition male to female. Not
>> somebody I saw every day, they were a ministerial appointment to a Quango so attended
>> meetings etc on a monthly or so basis. Apparently they'd long felt miscast in the
>> male gender but there was little option for exploring it in the sixties and they
>> married etc. Only after being widowed did they do anything about it. Went through hormones, living in the acquired gender, and subsequently surgery.
There is a big difference between someone who goes through the surgical process of changing gender (Robert Millar, mountains category winner in the 1985 Tour de France and now living as Phillipa Yorke, for example) and what many of the trans community want, that anyone who simply declares themselves as female should automatically be regarded as such.
It makes about as much sense as me declaring that I'm now a tin of Heinz Alphabet Spaghetti.
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 28 Sep 21 at 19:34
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