The M/F Boxes

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a dress. After twenty years on the job, a man was fired, because his boss found out he wore women’s clothes at home. A small time hustler is raped and murdered, because he’s physically female. A woman bleeds to death after paramedics discover she had male genitals under her clothes.
M/F simple question for most of us, its decided while was in utero. We don’t give it a second thought when we check the box m/f on any papers we fill out. There’s a group of people coming forward, wanting to be heard, whose bodies or behavior upset that clear division. They call themselves “transgendered”. It’s a spongy new name, at its best, includes medically reassigned transsexuals to cross dressing men to masculine women, who get thrown out of women’s restrooms. Others also included intersexual, (hermaphrodites-someone born with both Male and Female genitals).
Brought together through the internet and by the inspiration of gay rights movement, the intersex and transgender activists are being ...

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