I definitely agree with you that people need to take it down a notch and learn that a joke’s a joke.

But it’s ridiculous to call a transgendered woman a man, or even to label her in any legal sense as a man.

[Daphne – ‘Transgendered woman’: there is no such thing. That’s just what this whole issue is about. You are either a woman or a man.]

She lives in society as a woman, she is perceived to be a woman by others and her gender, her identity, is female. It’s impractical to label her as a male and creates a host of problems for her. She is a woman.

She should be able to marry her fiance, if he actually is her fiance, as a woman, not as a biological man.

Kollha qishom sejrin weekend break. Jidhru relakx, ghax il-gvern illi jemmnu fih, relaxed.

An excellent, most lucid comment. It deserves to be posted as a separate entry. Just about a week ago I had an argument precisely about this issue:

“A transgender woman remains, biologically, a man. That is the fact on which this whole controversy hinged, and why the court rulings contradicted each other: one court went with the outward physicality, another with biology.”

Some people just fail to make the distinction between the biological and emotional-behavioural issues, and this has been further complicated by the contradictory court rulings.

As you say: Science is science and it is simply ridiculous and totally incongruous to change a scientifically- and physically-proven X into a Y.

He must be feeling in safer hands now and it gives him a stronger sense of security.

Kulhadd ileqq u mxammar.

Nixtieq inzid nghid li kulhadd libes sew. Prosit u najs.

Ma tantx jidher li kien hawn il-faqar f’dal-pajjiz.

Ezatt. Jekk se tilbes qmis biex ixxammarha, wiehed m’ghandux jaghzel qmis ta’ dik it-tip – sabiha u eleganti, l-ingravata taqbel ecc, tintlibez minghajr glekk u tghaddi – imma li meta ixxammarha, jidher l-abjad tal-qmis.

F’okkazjonijiet ta’ dawk it-tip, il-qmis ma tixxammarx qisna sejrin il-bahar.

Mill-banda l-ohra KZT eleganti wisq, qisu sejjer Mediterranean Cruise.

Dar-ritratt ezatt juri, x’socjeta ghandna.

Agree with you 500%. first things first and not these. X’naqbad nghidilhom?