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Old 04-21-2008, 04:09 PM   #11 (permalink)
snowy
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Wow, this is great. It's good to hear that even the transgendered aren't spared such publicized embarrassment. I thought it was a just a heterosexual thing.

It really is just a logical step, I guess.

That's entertainment.
Transgendered folk have long been treated as tabloid fodder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jorgensen

I recommend reading Joanne Meyerowitz's How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States for more information on how the transgendered have been viewed and treated by American culture.
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