It's a sad state of affairs indeed, but as someone on the other side of the gender-transender divide (being a trans-person and bisexual), I can only say that it's not so much a case of "the more things change, the more they say the same" as it is "the changing levels of acceptability."

We tend to focus on the more obvious things, like in this case, Leisha's kissing a girl. But, isn't it that, in the beginning of the century, PDA's were scandalous, even if it was a heteresexual kind of PDA? The fact that Leisha was able to be with her girlfriend openly out in public shows how far it has changed since then. I suppose that we who are the discriminated party here, we can wax on and on about how society is so unfair to us. I'm not saying that it's fair - I'm saying that it ISN'T, but it is so much better than how it was before. Fifty or so years ago, I doubt if someone like me would be allowed, and I could expect a lynching anytime.

There are the shakers and the reformers - those that test the edge of the envelope and challenge the system and the current mores, like Leisha, that pave the way for people like me to be allowed to live the way we want.

I am no trailbazer or reformer. All I really want is a chance to be happy, even if its not exactly on equal terms as everyone (almost equal is good enough for me, actually). And as such, Moe-Moe n I refrain from PDAs - handholding or arms around waists is good enough. A compromise, true, but, like I said, all I really want is to live. I, in fact, resent the attitude of some that say it's my duty to fight for the rights of people like me. And I have to ask, "sez who?" I'm not a Martin Luther King, or an Anita Bryant. And who are they to demand me to be one? Walk a mile in my shoes first. (Manolo Blahnik size 5 1/2 or size 6 slim heehee)

I guess many people out there would be disappointed hearing that from me... If I did, I apologize. I'm no hero/heroine, and I have never claimed to be - I'm just an ordinary person who wants to be left alone and live life.

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