Think about it – here’s a woman with qualifications in Engineering, Physics, Business Administration…. headed an advanced missile project… a Test Pilot for goodness’ sake, with 20 years experience in that, and 30 years in Defence and Aerospace… and you say she’s some kind of “nut job”?

Here’s a clue. Because most people get taught very simplistic notions about biological sex at grade school.

Male–to–female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus. Kruiver et al J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2000) 85:2034–2041

Sexual differentiation of the human brain: relevance for gender identity, transsexualism and sexual orientation. Swaab Gynecol Endocrinol (2004) 19:301–312.

A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality. by Zhou et al Nature (1995) 378:68–70.

A sex difference in the hypothalamic uncinate nucleus: relationship to gender identity by Garcia-Falgueras et al Brain. 2008 Dec;131(Pt 12):3132-46.

It’s an anatomical Intersex condition. Feminised brain, masculinised body. Just as if you woke up one day with a body mostly like the opposite sex’s. OK, after the initial “hmm… always disd wonder what it would feel like”, you’d start feeling a terrible wrongness. Even your instinctive body language that’s hard-wired in the brain would be wrong. Then. as the cross-sexed hormones start causing neurological dysfunction, your mind would start to rot, you’d become terminally depressed. Suicide’s likely.

Only a few with unusually stable minds can take it for long. They move heaven and earth to get the hormones right, and then, in time, the rest.

It doesn’t? Mine does. What version of Office are you running… or better yet, what software are you running? I got Office ’07… and “transgender” isn’t flagged… although “spellcheck” is, oddly enough.

So you belong to the same category as those who called out Letterman, then? Funny how some people *hate* political correctness until they want to use it for themselves.

Southern White males are the only ones not protected.

Though with that said, if my wide were to come home one day and announce that she’s a secret Republican, I’d definitely be surprised, perhaps a little perturbed and until I had time to think, I wouldn’t know how to react.

And, though I might be mistaken because there may have been an Alec Baldwin storyline on 30 Rock, but for reason, I seem to recall a “you mean the woman I’m dating used to be man” conversation on Boston Legal and though I may be totally projecting, but it seems that Shatner couldn’t deal with it, but Spader had no problem.