Abu Nudnik in Toronto
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 10:35 PM

What does it mean to be "born into the life of a transgender woman?" That's about as clear as mud. When born, what sex were you?

Regarding the fact that homosexuals play out male and female roles with one dominant and the other submissive, they are indeed roles. They may "demonstrate" the difference, as you say, but they do not embody the difference.

It's a tautology to say that what occurs in nature is natural. But the definition for human nature or even animal nature is far too broad to have meaning. Living beings mostly reproduce through sexual reproduction and that is the norm. A norm is a statistical matter. What is normal is what is more than average and what is abnormal is what deviates from the norm. There is no intention on my part to denigrate that. It is not normal to be a musician but we're glad they exist.

A structural legal and political problem exists when people have to go to government agencies and others to attain the basic things of life. Birth occurs naturally between a man and a woman without the need to consult anyone. To me, this is nature or at least living nature. Until we find the stars have sexes at least.

Best of luck in your voyage. I bear you no ill. My uncle was a flamboyant gay man who was terribly mistreated when trying to visit the lover whose doctors bills he paid. Yet he wasn't able to visit him by mean hospital people. How it would affect the patient should be the only question, not familial affiliation.

Still, I agree with most of the posters regarding same-sex marriage. I'm against it on symbolic grounds. The joining of two sexes, not two people, is the more powerful symbol and symbols float cultures.

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