DaddySatyr -> RE: Gayle Newland is jailed for pretending to be a man to have sex with women (1/3/2016 8:43:38 PM)
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We had a very similar situation, in my neighborhood (NYC), when I was a teen-ager. A young lady was hanging around outside a (female) friend's house. We didn't recognize her from the neighborhood so a few of us went over to ask her if we could be of assistance. She told us she was trying to get in touch with her boyfriend. Right off, that didn't ring true. The house in question only had two daughters, living there. We asked her if she had the right house, etc. It turned out, the younger daughter (our age 16 or so), had been (at least to some degree), living as a man. This was 1980 and things were a bit different then, but NYC had a large gay population and had more resources for the community than some of the more rural areas. As I said, the young lady in question was a friend of ours. I decided to see if I could help. The long-and-short of it is: she denied everything to me. Some years later, I heard that she had met her end because one of the young ladies that she'd fooled decided that it warranted death. This is a difficult thought process for me, but I think I come down on the side of: this is rape. I do feel bad for people that are struggling with gender identity, but their struggles don't make it okay for them to abuse others. If my gut reaction is right, my feeling is that just like when a man rapes a woman, death is the correct sentence. Michael
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