“Lesbians for Justice therefore appeals to the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to nullify its "womyn-born-womyn only" policy, and to allow ⟳ the attendance of post-operative male-to-female transsexuals at all future festivals.”

“When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation, he is a transsexual.”

“He claimed that they had this wonderful and loving relationship in which the transsexual-to-be had felt that his suitor truly loved him the way he was and didn’t want ⟳ him to have ⟳ the surgery, […]”

“Hundreds of women every year are taken completely by surprise ⟳ when their husbands announce ⟳ they want ⟳ to undergo ⟳ sex-change surgery — and the news is even more shocking when comes, as it often does, from a burly he-man who’d given no clue to his inner girl. ¶ But the signs are definitely there if your husband is dreaming of becoming a transsexual, says a new study ⟳ by a top sexologist.”

“He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.”

“Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter ⟳ of life and death.”

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