Posted on 03/11/2012 6:48:44 PM PDT by bornred
This spring, Les and Scott GrantSmith will mark their 25th wedding anniversary. The couple raised two daughters along the way. But 15 years ago, they hit a crisis that nearly shattered their family. Les was keeping a secret, and that became a problem. But they solved it as a family, in a way that kept them together and happy.
In the weeks leading up to that day back in 1997, Les was certain of two things: She was a mother who loved her daughters — and she was also transgender, the term for someone born in a body of the wrong sex.
Les grew depressed and withdrawn, terrified that revealing her need to live her life as a man would mean losing Scott and their daughters, Thea and Amanda.
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The second step is to force you to accept it as "normal" and make you a pariah if you express even a hint of disapproval.
Next up: polygamy, incest, and pedophilia. Watch for it.
... And I insist that you praise me and call me normal."
Do whatever weird things you want to do, but leave us out of it, weirdos.
Well when you put it like that you make me doubt getting the surgery to become a space alien unicorn.
This world is getting sicker everyday.
not your average tomboy
Her name is Les? Really? It's not April 1.
...and this is what is declared “news you need to know” at NPR. 20% unemployment and this garbage trumps the real pain and suffering out there.
Wow! She had an addadictomy!
“....and she was also transgender, the term for someone born in a body of the wrong sex.”
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“Wrong”, huh?
So she really, unequivocally was a dude from birth?
so he was a filthy queer with her as his beard all these years???
“three newspapers are more to feared than a thousand bayonets” — someone who ought to know.
The psychologically disturbed and their enablers have turned the country into a carnival sideshow.
What the hell does that mean? Can someone do me a favor and schedule the surgical procedure that will turn me into a well-built, athletic man who can be a professional hockey playter? I was obviously born in a body of the wrong physique.
I also think I see what the problem was with this married couple. Just look at the two people in that photo ... they look like they're siblings!
“Ozzie and Harriet,” this ain’t. “Leaving the Beaver,” maybe.
They brought their freak show public, so all`s fair. Do they now have gay sex, or is she now adulterous. Or are the celibate? I don`t think it`s unreasonable to ask.
You too?
Apparently it is contagious. Thus the warning to keep our distance from them.
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