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The notion that there are two ideals for the human body is very common, and is shared by many non-transsexuals who also seek to modify their bodies to align with the ideal. Even if what we call transsexual people are biologically intersexed so far as their brain sex is concerned (and is that likely to be a simple either/or situation?), most of us are female or male bodied and can do only so much toward realigning that body with the opposite ideal. That Janice Raymond wrote a particularly hateful book on the subject should not invalidate consideration of the possibility that gender need not operate in lockstep with physical appearance, or that other solutions to the "problem of transsexuality" may exist. We are each individuals. That there are two large bumps in the normal distribution of body attributes and huge social pressure to place one's own body within one or the other region does not and should not obscure the fact that every point on a normal curve is normal. -- Lisa _______________________________________________________________ Lisa Lees [log in to unmask] www.lisalees.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%