Kevin D. Williamson: Laverne Cox: Also Not A Woman

Again, he's right on target:

As a matter of government, I have little or no desire to police how Cox or any other man or woman conducts his or her personal life. But having a culture organized around the elevation of unreality over reality in the service of Eros, who is a sometimes savage god, is not only irrational but antirational. Cox’s situation gave him an intensely unhappy childhood and led to an eventual suicide attempt, and his story demands our sympathy; times being what they are, we might even offer our indulgence. But neither of those should be allowed to overwhelm the facts, which are not subject to our feelings, however sincere or well intended.

As I've always said: Cox and people like him should be able to live and look however they damn well please. But it's impossible, at our current level of technology, to change your sex. (And, as a sidebar: it's insane to mutilate your junk given that you'll end up, at best, with a quasi-functional simulacrum of the opposite kind.) And any attempt to make the rest of us pretend that hes are shes and vice-versa is a psychotic slice of totalitarianism.