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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Sex changes, was (Re: Self Appreciation)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.191024.22626@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:10:24 GMT
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- -In article <1992Nov16.185735.25510@mr.med.ge.com> wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us writes:
- ->Rich Payne (payner@netcom.com) wrote:
- ->> Since you made a public anouncement, I hope you won't mind my asking why?
- ->> (The sex change that is)
- ->
- ->Why???? Because I am a woman. I just happened to get stuck inside of a man's
- ->body. While I have surpressed these emotions for many years, and tried to
- ->act as a man, I've always known I was female. The internal conflict is almost
- ->too much to bear. I doubt that you would understand. Most people don't,
- ->although more women seem to then men.
- ->
- ->> Rich
- ->
- ->Wendy
- -
- -Think about what we all experience as real differences between men and women.
- -Men and women think, act, react, dream, ... differently.
-
- I would like to point out that Richard Lynch claims that these differences
- are a matter of social conditioning. He has (as far as I can tell) denied
- that biology plays any significant role.
-
- I have problems reconciling the concept of a "women in a man's body" (or vice
- versa) with the concept of sexual identity 100% assigned by social conditioning.
-
- -Now, each one of you that strongly identifies with being male or female - take
- -your current personality and picture it inside the body of the opposite sex.
- -It would be damned awkward, confusing, at times humiliating as you would
- -behave in a manner different from the "norm". Wouldn't you want to get
- -back to a body you're comfortable in?
- -
- -I don't know about the statistics, but I've not yet heard of somebody
- -changing their sex twice!
-
- I have not heard of any such reverse sex changes either, but I wonder if
- this is even medically possible with current medical technology.
-
- -Nature/God tries out endless "variations on a theme" all the time. I don't
- -know why people feel so threatened that someone is born gay
-
- It is still an open question as to whether anyone is born gay. I do not
- claim to know one way or another BTW.
-
- - or that someone
- -feels like a woman trapped inside the body of a man. Since our society
- -has trouble accepting men who act like women, I think it's fine to use
- -the technology we have to allow someone to be consistent in their nature and
- -their appearance.
-
- If they so desire. But I wonder how such things are funded?
-
- -Take care, Wendy.
- -
- - Janice Kendall kendall@adobe.com ...!{decwrl|sun}!adobe!kendall
- -
- - Don't Panic! Clinton will be our *42*nd President.
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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