[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I don't know anyone personally who has wanted to be another gender. I think few have known others who have wanted to be another gender. That is the reason the whole issue is troubling and emotionally charged. I think that not his angst is in question, but why he chose to not do it more privately.

Gracie, probably you do know trans gender people, but they are in the closet, like gays were back in the day.
Remember the elderly spinster school teacher who taught algebra (oh sorry, that was just at my school).
Bruce Jenner chose not to come out privately because he wants to bring the trans gender community out of the closet.
Twenty years ago, homosexuality was thought to be disgusting and a weird choice that people made.
Now we know that gay people are born that way, and it's not a choice at all, just genes, nothing to be frowned upon.