I feel sad for all the possible embarrassment and awkwardness current publicity, ridicule by comedians and others, and general online commentary might bring to some everyday ordinary people who, for whatever physical or psychologically based reason, feel that they are in conflict with the gender their body presented at birth. I feel sad because what these people have to endure must always be a sensitive and long, highly personal struggle, dealt with by each in the way best suited to their own disposition. Instead of being able to go about whatever processes, challenges and changes they deem necessary for themselves in a private and quietly dignified manner, in this age of so-called "social" networking, where there's so much that is clearly anti-social going on, an additional source of difficulty has arisen.
If some people find the concept of transgender "wrong" or distasteful, that is their prerogative, of course. If those same people have any sense of decency at all, they might desist from public declarations of their "disgust" and/or ridicule. I want to yell to these comedians, commentators, bloggers et al, "Grow up why don't ya, display a bit of real humanity - just for a change!"
