Time to give transgenders rights, not ridicule

Sun-Sentinel.com – Michael Mayo – News Columnist

Last summer, when my cholesterol count came back high, my wife signed me up with a personal trainer. “You’ll like him,” she said. “He’s got an interesting story.”

Off I went to Bodies Under Construction, a fitness studio in Hollywood run by Mark Angelo Cummings and his wife Violet.

Mark was short, balding and had a beard. He had a big smile and a quick wit.

During my first workout, Mark told me he was born with a “birth defect.”

“Really,” I said. “You look perfectly healthy to me.”