I teared up after reading this introduction to an incredibly trans-positive editorial by the Reverend Martin M. Ellison.
Thank God for transgender persons and their families, who exemplify the amazing beauty of the divine creation in all its complexity and rich diversity.
See much more here: Transgender people are a blessing — Opinion — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine.
Sadly, his nice article was written in response to another OpEd piece on the Bangor Daily News a week earlier by Michael Heath – http://bangordailynews.com/2013/07/23/opinion/contributors/michael-heath-on-sexual-morality/ , a seriously nasty piece making comments about transwomen at women’s shelters (which he actually refers to as a transvestite man or as “bearded man in a woman’s dress leering at women in a women’s shelter”).
Given the diversity of opinions of its OpEd contributors, I’m surprised the BDN doesn’t have a tagline on all the articles stating that none of them represent the views of the paper or its owners…