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i guess it's interesting. i mean. i'm a curious person so most everything is interesting in a way to me. on this subject though. i've seen people on tv who grew up one gender but felt they should have been the other. and well. it's sorta sad cause they usually go through a lot of hassles. you know. it's not their fault that they feel this way or were born a certain gender. but i don't know. it's interesting.

it's like that one movie by hillary swank - boys don't cry - it's about the life story of brandon teena. she dresses up as a guy falls in love with this one chick. then when people realize he's a girl they beat her up then rape her. i think she dies too. i don't remember how it ends up.

cause people are stupid and are quick to judge what doesn't seem normal to them. i mean. i don't know how to explain it but people are just ignorant to a lot of stuff.

and that's true about us americans. in most other countries they'll have a mixed society like we have but they don't go around bashing each other. well, not so much that is.

I know someone who is intergendered. It (and it prefers the term "it" rather than "he" or "she"... so this isn't an insult.) has been officially diagnosed with gender dysphoria, but intergendered people are rarer than transgenders, I think. Things have been said in passing that lead me to believe it may have ambiguous genitalia, but is not a true hermaphrodite. I get the feeling it may lean more toward female physically. We're not that personal with each other, so I'm not sure. But it does identify itself as both male and female, yet more as something that is unique when you combine the two... something that is both, and yet completely different from either. This is kind of hard to explain to people who've never met it. But it is a beautiful person, and once I adjusted to saying "it", I realized my life is much better for having met it. I know very few people who have such beautiful souls. And it doesn't feel sorry for itself or shove its differences in other's faces. It minds it's own business and does it's best to be the person it feels it's here on Earth to be. Honestly, I know people who are quite clearly male or female that aren't that kind, loving, responsible, mature, etc. The kind of person someone is matters a lot more to me than their gender.