Before 10 years ago, I never had trouble with adult cross-dressers as a concept. They have a lifestyle, and that's fine.

In the past ten years, two related problems have emerged. First, a subset of the class invaded the language in a supremely dangerous way. To declare that someone who chooses to present/dress as someone of the opposite sex is afforded entirely the status of that sex is patently insane. Philosophically and practically, this is actually dangerous, as the women in prison and battered women's shelters can attest to. Reality cannot be put aside, but they have declared they will do so anyway, damn the consequences.

Simultaneously, our medical class has dived into this insanity with both feet. How trained medical professionals - who use biological sex every day to assess disease and physical infirmity - have bought into this insanity to the point of mutilating healthy humans is entirely beyond me. I guess I didn't realize just how much mental illness and deep distress there is among our medical class. Remember, the people they are doing this to start out physically healthy, and would develop and sustain a natural human life. Doctors ARE DOING HARM to healthy people. This is absolutely sickening.