This gets rather political but if he identifies himself as a man, then that's good enough for me. Legally, he's been a man for 10 years anyway. If I were him, I'd be really pissed off to hear people say "he's not a man" after all he's been through.

Funny - we could each look at our lives and *ack* our teenage years and think how miserable and unhappy and misunderstood we are... but imagine feeling as though you were born into the wrong gender... and feeling SO strongly enough about it to decide to undergo a physical and social transformation as drastic as reassignment?

I have nothing but compassion for people who do that, and it makes me feel selfish to think of myself as 'misunderstood' when my problems were so petty in comparison.

I'm proud of him and his wife for being as brave as they are.