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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have one "transgender" coworker, in his 60s. All he's interested in is makeup, hair, nails and dressing up. He has no idea what it means to be a woman and no real respect for women. He's just an exhibitionist who likes all the attention, in my view.
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He's not transgender, or even "transgender". He's a cross-dresser.[/quote]

He had the operation in Brussels, complete with new vagina built from his former scrotum. He called the women's rights march a bunch of "feminazis." He's a gospel spouting fundamentalist who was thrown out by his church but still believes men should dominate women and he's been doing speed dating to find a man (not successful so far). He's still a he to me, no matter his surgically altered genitals. I honestly think he was attracted to other men but couldn't square it with his religious beliefs so now insists he was always a woman. This 6'4" former linebacker wears  pink frocks and frilly hats to work - every day. 
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If you know your coworker prefers a particular pronoun, you should try to use it. I think there's a chance that you're correct that she was more able to come to terms with herself as a woman than as a gay man, but as sad as that is, it's not your place to try to push.

I'm one of the people who worries because if my daughter is a butch lesbian or my son a flaming homosexual they'd be encouraged to consider themselves transgender. I'd like them to feel comfortable to embrace who they are rather than feeling like they need to change what they are to fit a stereotype. To know women can be masculine in behavior and appearance and still be women. Men can be effeminate in behavior and appearance and still be men. And it's just fine to be gay. But I don't think being cruel to a coworker would benefit my children in any way, nor do I think it would help model for them the type of person I'd like them to become. Refusing to use the pronouns she prefers is pointlessly mean.[/quote]

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