Time to Give Transgenders Rights, Not Ridicule

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."

He explained that he was, after surgery and years of therapy. "I was born the wrong sex," he said. "I was born Maritza."

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