RANSVESTIA

that they can have more orthodox relations with males, and the gender change is just a logical extension of the sex change. Heterosexuals basicly seek the right to a change of gender and the right to live in the world as woman. Unfortunately, being unable to separate sex from gender change can be made. Additionally the anatomical change is insurance against social and legal harassment by the authorities. It is exceedingly unfortunate that our society has such medieval ideas about sex and gender that people must go to all the expense, surgical risk, and pain involved in such surgery, just to legitimize their desire to experience the other half of their humanity by living in the opposite gender.

Sex and gender are not two names for the same thing-they are not parts of the same continuua-rather they represent two different continuua. One runs from maleness through hermaphroditism to femaleness the other runs from macho masculinity through androgeny-gynandry to the extremes of femininity. Surgery is therefore a logical endpoint for certain insertee-type homosexuals. It is not the logical endpoint of heterosexual cross dressing though a great many lay and professionals alike see it that way. The real logical endpoint of such behaviour is simply full time and complete adoption of the feminine role as defined in a particular culture. Such a person is a male woman—a change of gender, but not of sex.

REAL ESTATE

"The automatic garage door opener will make it easier for your husband to get

in the house while dressed."

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