Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: re: transsexuals Message-ID: <2233@randvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 13:57:37 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.2233 Posted: Sun Jan 6 13:57:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 07:58:10 EST References: <1155@druxt.UUCP> <1915@sun.uucp> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 20 Sunny's comments on the general discrimination against transexuals reminds me of a (probably bisexual) woman I knew. She had lived an exclusively gay lifestyle for a number of years, but was beginning to experiment with heterosexual relationships. I was surprised to find out how fearful she was of being discovered by her gay friends-- it seems that being a bisexual would be considered being a ``traitor'' and that she'd probably be completely ostracized. (I might add that this group of ``friends'' included gays of both sexes, and she claimed that they both had this prejudice.) Is this woman's experience unusual? Or does this just go to show how prejudice exists in every group, even those who are themselves victims of it? I realize this is a bit off the original subject--though in a broad sense, it isn't. To paraphrase Walt Kelly, we have met the enemy, and the enemy is: intolerance. -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall