[struggle]

Well I call it that after Tiresias, the famous Greek prophet that was transformed into a woman by Hera.

There’s actually a book called The Man that Would Be Queen, which basically splits make transgendered into two camps: 1 ultragay men that can’t accept their own masculinity, and 2 aging males that do it to try to escape their own death through transformation.

[miss marmelstein]

Very interesting! The play The Bacchai by Euripides features a character who turns into a woman. I saw it performed at The National Theater in London and it was as powerful a transformation as I've ever seen. Nothing like this freak, btw, which is being solely done to get attention and to win against women. I hope the feministas are happy.

[IrishBrigade]

Well I call it that after Tiresias, the famous Greek prophet that was transformed into a woman by Hera.

Ah yes, ‘blind Tiresias with wrinkled dugs’as Eliot so artfully described him...had to do with copulating snakes, IIRC, and he was changed back some time later...