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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: re: transsexuals
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Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 13:57:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  6 13:57:37 1985
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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
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