[GATOR NAVY]

If you think you’re a Martian, you’re mentally ill- no one surgically tries to turn you into a Martian(well, not that I know of), or a duck . or Lincoln, or any other thing your malfunctioning brain tells you you are.

That is a very interesting point.

On an aside, I wish the author didn't feel the need to play the stupid pronoun games. She's a she, and cutting off her breasts and taking male hormones isn't going to change that. Reminds of the idiotic story last year(?) in the news about the pregnant "man". Uh, no, she was a woman who wanted to look like a man, but the very fact of her pregnancy eliminated any doubt as to her being a woman, i.e. not a man.

[kaylar]

I wish the author didn't feel the need to play the stupid pronoun games. She's a she, and cutting off her breasts and taking male hormones isn't going to change that. Reminds of the idiotic story last year(?) in the news about the pregnant "man". Uh, no, she was a woman who wanted to look like a man, but the very fact of her pregnancy eliminated any doubt as to her being a woman, i.e. not a man.

The author reveals deep ionsensitivity by his use of female pronouns. Good people, sensitive people use gender neutral pronouns like "zie" and "zer" , or "zes" that can be applied to male , female, ambiguous, androgynous, or unknown.

I am not making this up. There's a few folks on some of the LJ sites I frequent who make a point of using the "gender neutral" pronouns on reposted articles like this one, and you can just smell the self satisfied smugness of those users over the computer screen.