I seem to disagree with every third sentence in this essay, but have no problem with trans people in my day to day life. I think it's sad that a person feels like they are a woman trapped in a mans body, it's a tragedy. The expense and pain of going through the surgeries to become the semblance of a man or woman must be terribly expensive and painful. I'm not saying that they should just learn to play the hand they were delt, just saying that it seems like a hard thing to go through. This essay makes it plain that it's controversial and even offensive to say that I don't think that saying you are a woman trapped in a male body means you are a woman or the fact that you have gotten the surgery to make your physical appearance resemble the appearance that you feel you are inside makes you what you tell me you are. In my honest opinion I don't really know what to think and feel that it's really beside the point.

I deal with gay, straight, male, female, cross dressing, trans gendered, women with beards, ambiguous and what ever other labeled people you can think about on a pretty regular basis at my job and in my community. The only thing I really find significant about all these people is that they should be treated with the same respect that I treat the next person. I try and treat people in accordance with what they seem to see themselves as, because that is probably what they are looking for out of life, to be accepted as who they want to be. I guess I accept it even if I find it confusing sometimes.