Aurora officer shows strength, fortitude
I’d like to thank the Rocky Mountain News for printing the story about transgendered Aurora policewoman Renee Grahn (“Undercover in all ways,” Sept. 1). She shows amazing strength of character and intestinal fortitude. It’s important to educate the public about gender identity disorder and make it clear that it has nothing to do with having sex and everything to do with identifying with a gender.
Even if we don’t believe in someone taking the surgical steps to alter their body to match their mind, we must at least tolerate it because we are a civilized society. And our society’s evolving. Just in the last six months there have been a handful of personal transgender stories covered by national journalists.
We are intelligent enough to see that transgendered people aren’t going to go away. How we deal with this emerging (but not new) issue now will leave our mark in history. Each single person who opens their heart to an individual afflicted with gender identity disorder engages another cog on the gears that are social change and advancement.
Those of us who are enlightened must keep our bond strong in order to carry some of the less-than-willing over the river of fear and misunderstanding to the land of loving acceptance and spiritual advancement.
Diana Woods, Westminster
I will treat them like anyone else with a serious mental illness. With pity and sympathy.
Posted by doctorb on September 11, 2007 02:01 AMDo we really need people with serious mental disorders carrying firearms?
Posted by on September 11, 2007 03:09 AMGood article. This is not a serious mental illness, it is a problem of x and y chromosomes and hormones and brain wiring.
Posted by Sharon B. on September 11, 2007 11:22 AM