In a nutshell, this thread is the reason I spend so little time here anymore. The greatest benefit I received from openly accepting my transgenderism a decade ago was the incredibly liberating realization that, in accepting myself, I somehow gained a huge amount of empathy for anyone who is different -- because of gender identification, because of sexual orientation, because of culture, because of what their favourite food is...I think you get the picture. It was as if a veil was lifted and I could suddenly see that our differences transform our world from black and white into colour. Zooey, you strongly protest when someone calls you on being superior and discriminatory. Yet so many of your postings contain subtle innuendos that lead me, if not most of us, to assume that in fact you are just that.
