same sex wrong sex which sex

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Connie,

Hard to follow the plot line in the newspaper article. 
Hard to know the real story.

I went to college and hung out with and drunk beer with
a Barbara B. She is now Ethan.

Ethan always had a butch life style, wore engineer boots,
rode a sickle (BMW 1 lunger), liked drinking beer with the
guys. She never seemed to be attracted to women, indeed she
was married briefly to a manly guy we knew, indeed she had 
bought the sickle from him previously.

Later in life she lived in Alabama with a guy who made knives
and sold them at knife shows. Eventually he threatened her
with a knife or with some other main d'oeuvre and she fled
to Minneapolis.

On the way she converted to being a Reform jew this in recent 
years.

She then converted to being a guy this year.

She emailed me the name change and I just read about it in
an alumni magazine I get. apparently she was moved to notify
her class secretary and it was printed in the back of 
the magazine.

So in the case of my friend her conversions seem to be a 
search first for spiritual change. Then later on to a 
physical change. sorta trying to answer the question "Who
am I?"

this question has always seemed to me to be a vox nihili.

my self question has always been "What do I do now?" even
thinking back to earliest self-consciousness when i was
reading stuff. the stuff in the books was always more 
interesting than I was to myself.

best,

M

Connie Clark wrote:
> 
> Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss.
> 
> slow this morning on the ghetto list, so taking advantage I am sharing
> this irrelevant, not so-serious, and rather confusing news story.
> Shows-to-go-ya the 'slippery slope' that allowing same sex marriage, I
> mean, no, now what?
> 
> March 3, 2004, 6:27AM
> 
> Gender test ordered in divorce case
> 
> By HARVEY RICE
> Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
> 
> Her driver's license indicates she's a man, but Linda Gail Carter
> insists she's a woman.
> 
> On Tuesday, a judge ordered Carter to undergo genetic testing to
> determine her true sex as part of her lawsuit to dissolve her marriage
> to another woman.
> 
> Following a request by Carter's wife, Constance D. Gonzales, state
> Family Court Judge Lisa Millard ordered the testing and placed a gag
> order in the case.
> 
> In another twist, one of Carter's former employees claimed Carter has
> been using her former male name and dressing as a man. The employee
> claimed he and his wife were married in 2002 by Carter, who was then
> using a male name even though she had legally changed sexes four years
> earlier.
> 
> Carter, formerly James H. Murphy, legally changed her name and gender
> in May 1998. She married Gonzales in Las Vegas on Oct. 31 that year.
> 
> In a dispute over management of Veterans Funeral Services at 10567
> Memorial Drive in Houston and other properties, Carter sued last
> August to dissolve the marriage.
> 
> The court had given Gonzales control of the business, and Carter hoped
> to regain control by dissolving the marriage.
> 
> Millard had ordered a genetic test Nov. 13, and the state 14th Court
> of Appeals upheld the ruling Nov. 19. The Supreme Court of Texas on
> Dec. 1 denied Carter's appeal.
> 
> The judge's original order said a test was needed because Carter "is
> 6-foot-4, weighs 275 pounds and purportedly has male genitals."
> According to case law, only chromosomes can determine sex, Millard
> wrote. "In short, once a man, always a man," she wrote.