EmpressPixie, thank u for the detailed response. i’ll concur that my response was ignorant, but only of the true meaning of GOS’ question, and nothing more. and i am absolutely 100% sure that i am not the only one who would/did make such a mistake. and i completely agree w/ ur statement “When you think of what makes you a man or a woman, you aren’t just thinking in terms of genitals. There is a whole set of psychology and abilities that comes with your gender.” this actually what i was trying to get at why my question, b/c modern science is beginning to discover that the wiring of many gay persons, and tgs, brains are different—not bad, wrong or inequal, but different than the majority of heterosexuals. in fact, it is often like there is a female brain in a males body, or vice-versa. i think this is an unfortunate result of the PC movement that somehow we are not able to appreciate, let alone express, that we are not all the same. but i’m getting off topic here. my original question was simply trying to ascertain whether GOS was referring to gays or not. and something that shoulod be noted is that outside the small circle of the PC fanatics, many, if not most people would see little difference between gay and transgender. of course this does not mean their experiences are indentical, but u also must accept that many people in society would/do view gays as people of one gender trapped in a body of the other gender. and certainly there are many blurry lines on this front, don’t u think? there is no black and white in an issue as complex as this one.
but i again asked my friend about this, and he stated, and i quote “oh, hell no! i love my c*ck and would never want to chop it off, and i’d never want to bleed every month!” so, yes, of course they are not they same, but i think we should at least admit that it’s not so amazing that someone might want a little clarification on the issue. and like i said, i knew immediately from her response that she was probably a straight girl, probably still in university, waving the PC banner out of some perceived wrong done to the gay community, a wrong that most in the gay community would not even bat an eyelash at, let alone react with such hostility to. and i still maintain that GOS’ response was un-called for. i mean, to tell someone “i don’t like what u said, i think u are stupid and i hope u go away and never come back” (this is a paraphrase of GOS’ response)—where’s the good in that? and that is something much more like rush limbaugh would say rather than some “enlightened,” tolerant indidvidual. GOS may think she was doing good sticking up for this mis-understood and under-represented segemnt of society, but like i said, 99% of those very people would never rspond in the manner in which she did. never is it good to respond out of anger w/ a deliberate intention to do harm to another, and i think that is something all people, gay, tg or straight can agree on.