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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
If they were women, I'd agree.
Had a client once who woke up one morning and thought he was a chiropractor. Made a sign and put it in his apartment window facing the street: "Dr. _____, Natural Healing". He got mad as heck when I told him that he wasn't a chiropractor and that he had to take his sign down: even threatened me with a lawsuit, claiming I was depriving him of his right to make a living. Fortunately, a visit to his Psychiatrist and a day or three wait for the new med to take effect took care of the issue: he was back to being who he always was.
Sometimes, reality stomps on in and crushes our most cherished fantasies.
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I think that is a silly and completely illogical response to serious issue. No individual or family with children facing a sexual identity issue takes this lightly or treats it as a running joke. No one “wakes up one morning” deciding they are actually of a different sex - it is typically the consequence of years of nagging doubts, frustration and fear, and incredible heartache from trying to fit into the expectations of others and facing the most incredible cruelty when they don’t. Most Villagers are old enough and experienced enough to have met people from all walks of life and know that we are not all cut from the same cloth and sexuality is not some hard and fast rule that everyone fits into neatly. I am not speaking to the issue of athletic competition but to all the demeaning, thoughtless, crude and silly comments that this issue provokes.