Posted on 01/02/2012 9:23:09 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Like many in his community, S.F. Makalani-MaHee spent a lifetime avoiding doctors — particularly the gynecologist, a physician who specializes on an area of the body that has always felt foreign to him.
Born a female but identifying as a man, the Fort Lauderdale community activist dreams of having surgery to complete a transition fulfilled in every other way but one: He still has a woman's genitalia. Changing that would mean going to the doctor and risking the very experiences he has long dreaded: ugly incidents that experts and studies say are all too common for the transgender community.
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I remember thatwhen I was 5, I wanted, when I grew up, to be a locomotive. Could I be the first LOCOMOTIVE-AMERICAN? I demand my rights as a locomotive.
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