For some, gender is a fluid thing. In the global sense, it doesn't matter if you grow up as a boy, knowing that you're really a girl, or vice-versa. I have no problem with that, if it's so important to you that you move to a strange town, save up $30,000 and have some surgery, and the end result is who you wanted to be, good for you.

Yesterday, I ran into a woman I'd dated briefly in college. Only now, she's a man. While everyone else in the room had seen her recently and knew about this development, I wasn't in on the scoop until she spoke and this man's voice came out. If it's what she wanted, what she feels she needs to do, great.

It still freaked me out though. While she was never girlie, this seemed extreme to me. I think it always will.