AmericanChronicle.com – Dave Muskera, M.A.
A recent NPR production on Children´s Health by Alix Spiegel dealt with the gender identity disorder sometimes known as transgenderism – a situation where an individual has the physical body of one sex (male or female) but very strongly identifies themselves as being of the gender opposite their body´s physical structure.
While the program made a stab at a balanced presentation, it will no doubt be critiqued from a number of directions – as well it should be. However, in addition to whatever other shortcomings there were in the presentation, I was disappointed that NPR missed an opportunity to further educate a generally confused public regarding the distinctions between transsexual individuals and homosexual ones…