I seem to recall hearing about a very conservative american, republican politician who was trying to have T-people banned from running for political office and was, more or less, advocating chromosome tests for candidates.

To be perhaps slightly provocatively arrogant- I, like so many others, have to live a life that I feel at one with and not how somebody thinks I ought to live. If this involves a realignment of the assigned gender then so be it. If narrow-minded people can't accept this then it's their problem, not mine.......unless gratuitous violence is involved.

I often find myself wondering how those people who get really worked up over T-people would react if one of their children were to oame out to them as trans. Would they disown their child and then, in case of a possible resulting suicide, stand there at the grave shedding crocodile tears? Or would they honestly try to realign their attitudes and accept the 'new' son/daughter? When I chance to read articles, postings etc. by bigotted journalists and the like I sometimes feel like wishing such a fate on them, even though being T is not really a fate I'd wish on anybody. But, there are always exceptions...........

I'm old enough to have adolescence of any sort far behind me and so watch some MtF activities with detached amusement. However, please bear in mind that some people feel that they've got a lot to catch up on and in a very short time............

Talk about pontificating.............