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These days it’s not unusual to hear of a man having a sex change. It’s gotten to be pretty common.

I can understand a person who has always felt they were trapped in the wrong body. Men who have always looked and felt feminine. Who were attracted to other men. I can see why they would want a sex change. And I’ve seen some who made much more attractive women than men.

What I don’t understand are the men, of which there seem to be many, who are by all accounts normal heterosexual men who undergo sex change. Most end up being fairly unattractive women who are still attracted to women.

Today’s source article, from ABC News, deals with such a man. David Schroer was married and had a successful career in the U.S. Army, rising through the ranks to become a Special Forces commander while leading a classified anti-terrorism unit involved in covert operations.

“That all changed when Schroer abruptly retired from the military and made a shocking announcement that stunned both his colleagues and family. He would no longer be Col. David Schroer, because he is now Diane Schroer, a transsexual.”

“Schroer then began the long and painful process of becoming a woman, undergoing intense therapy and taking female hormones under medical supervision. He also started wearing makeup, and underwent extensive cosmetic surgery.”

“But Schroer wasn’t envisioning a sexual relationship with any men. Schroer is interested in dating women. ‘I would say I am, in fact, a lesbian,’ she said.”

So now Schroer is a lesbian. It might just be me but it seems that life as a man who occasionally wears women’s clothes might be easier than being a somewhat unattractive lesbian. But what do I know.

Anyway that’s not really what this is all about.

After retiring from the Army Schroer applied for, and was offered, a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress late last year. Because she was still legally David Schroer, she did not reveal her plans to her prospective employer during the interview.

“She decided to tell the woman who hired her that she would begin work as a woman, not a man. Schroer said it seemed as though the woman took the information in stride and that the hiring was going forward as planned. But the following day, Schroer said she was told that she was no longer ‘a good fit’ for the position.”

She filed a lawsuit claiming that she was discriminated against because she was transgendered.

This week the federal district court in Washington, D.C. ruled in her favor.

But that’s not what this is about either.

What I wanted to write about is the fact that several lower courts had ruled against her. The lower courts ruled that the federal sex discrimination statute, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, didn’t apply to transgendered people. What this meant was that if you were transgendered, you could be discriminated against and there wasn’t anything you could do about it!

The district court ruling is being called a “potentially groundbreaking” case in the field of civil rights.

Schroer said, “I very much hope that this ruling will help to eliminate the all-too-pervasive discrimination against sexually nonconforming people in all areas.”

Does it surprise you that transgendered people were not covered by the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Just because nobody in 1964 thought to specifically mention them, doesn’t it make sense that everyone was intended to be covered?

Do you think the Library of Congress was justified in retracting their job offer once Schroer revealed his/her plans to begin work as a woman? Do you think that if Mr. Schroer was qualified for the job it only stands to reason the Ms. Schroer was too? Do you feel that the federal district court made the correct decision in this case?

Touching up my makeup,

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” - Stephen Hawking, English physicist, (b.1942)

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Starting in the mid-1920’s with the build-up of America’s roads and the production of inexpensive automobiles like the Ford Model “A”, families began taking weekend excursions by car and also vacations by car.

Roads were being built that would let a driver travel from coast to coast with hardly any navigation problems, or travel from north to south, north-east to south-west, or any other direction with a simple map showing the new “US Routes”. Navigating around after you left the major highways was another story.

Local communities tapped into the business of tourism quickly. Enterprising businessmen built Motor Courts, the precursor of today’s motels, to house the travelers, and all sorts of attractions to lure them off the highway. Some attractions were based on natures gifts; waterfalls, caverns, canyons, mountains, lakes etc. Some where based on the wild imagination of the locals, alligator wrestling, dinosaur bones, dancing bears, amusement parks, even restaurants that looked like apples, elephants, or whales.

The tourist trap was born. The types of tourist traps have changed over the years. There aren’t very many whale shaped restaurants anymore, and the attractions are both larger and a bit more sophisticated and hi-tech. While the natural attractions like the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and Luray or Carlsbad Caverns are still in business, we now have new attractions like Disneyland, Sea World, and the MGM Grand Theme Park.

It’s difficult for a small tourist attraction to compete. To be effective, it has to be unique. In Florida, alligator farms and alligator wrestling still draw tourists since there aren’t very many alligators once you leave the Deep South. In California, tourists are still attracted to wineries and Redwood Forests. Old forts and ghost towns are still profitable also, but coming up with something new is difficult.

In the Ukrainian town of Truskavets, they may have come up with a new and unique idea to attract tourists. It is a tavern named Eternity, and it is the world’s largest coffin. (Inside-outside pics) Inside, regular sized coffins will serve as tables, and it is the brainchild of a local group of undertakers led by Stepan Pyrianyk. I suppose if you can sit on commodes and eat out of bedpans and mini toilets in the “Modern Toilet Restaurant” in Taiwan, you can sit and drink in a coffin. (Restaurant Pics)

There’s nothing in the article about how the waiters or waitresses (or is it wait-persons to be PC?) and bartenders will be dressed. I can imagine all black with pasty faces like Morticia and a mini-Lurch. There’s no information on any signature drinks they may have in planning or what types of bar snacks might be served. I’ll suggest a Dead Bastard or a Death Wish for a house special drink and pale ale to go with the pasty complexions.

As far as bar snacks go, I think they should pass on the peanuts and pretzels. They need to come up with some type of fried “Sail Rabbit” noshes. Here in the south that’s an extremely polite euphemism for rabbit road kill. That means the rabbit has been run over so many times you can scrape it up with a putty knife and sail it like a Frisbee.

They also need to make sure they have a smoking section…where else would it be more appropriate to suck on coffin nails?

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Do you think using human milk SHOULD BE ALLOWED? Do you think it SHOULD BE LEGAL for a woman to sell her milk? (emphasis is mine).

Just because YOU are uncomfortable about something doesn’t mean it should be ILLEGAL! I would much rather live and let live. If you don’t want to eat food prepared with human milk, don’t patronize that restaurant. There is no reason this should be ILLEGAL! When considering things such as human milk or toplessness, my question is always "What is the overwhelming State interest in making this illegal?" Usually there is none. - Doug from Plymouth, Minnesota
[Doug, thanks for the comment. It’s always nice to see new folks jumping in.

I didn’t say I thought using or selling milk should be illegal, I only asked what others thought. As I said, I don’t like milk so the thought of human milk sounds pretty gross to me but that doesn’t mean it should be illegal. However, I’d be willing to bet it is illegal in the U.S. In most parts of the U.S. it’s illegal to sell unpasteurized cow’s milk. I can’t imagine any states allowing the sale of human milk. As a matter of fact, my understanding is that most areas that require topless dancers to wear pasties covering their nipples use the health codes to argue that something could drip from the breast and contaminate food or drinks if they’re not covered. Anybody who’s that scared of human milk sure wouldn’t allow it’s sale.]



Bizarre as it seems to be offering human milk, the Swiss restaurant stands alone in using common sense. Cow’s milk was never intended for human consumption. It’s been linked to osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer, and other diseases. And then there’s obesity, and lactose intolerance. Humans are unique on this planet in that they drink the milk of another species. Just because we can force another creature to give up its milk (and its offspring) doesn’t mean it’s right.

Many children around the world have suffered because their parents believed that mother’s milk wasn’t right for them, when — designed by nature — it’s the only thing that’s right for them. Colostrum is a substance in mother’s milk that gives a baby immunity and important nutrients. Yet our laziness/ignorance/gullibility has many mothers depriving their babies of the prime directive of breasts so that some manufacturer can make a profit. If we left the cow’s milk to cows, we’d all be a lot healthier. But since your tax dollars help to convince kids from school age that we need cow’s milk, we’ll probably spend the next few centuries drowning in the white noise of the dairy airs… T.I.M.



I don’t really see human breast milk as a "disgusting" thing. It has a different nutritional make up than milk from, say, cows or goats, which is why doctors encourage mothers these days not to feed a child cow’s milk at an early age. Personally I consider the difference to be very small, but you know how protective people are.

Anyway, the point is that it’s healthy, and the only thing stopping someone from having it is probably the fact that it’s not sold nationwide, and perhaps the taste of it.

And then there’s the social aspect of it.
Somewhere along the line, our society came up with the idea that, "Human breast milk is good for babies, but not allowed for older people." But why? I don’t recall ever hearing reasoning for it, but I do remember seeing scenes that enforced this. In the 1989 film "Look Who’s Talking," John Travolta is drinking a glass of milk and enjoying it. Then Kirstie Alley (I think) tells him it’s breast milk. He spits it out like it’s a urine sample at that moment.

Although I can see some troubles with how one might get a "constant supply" of breast milk. No real 100% steady sources, I think. - David, 22, Pennsylvania.



I’ve enjoyed a taste or two from my wives and girl friends over the years as part of sexual foreplay. I never thought about using it in cooking, let alone calling the gal over and asking for a squirt in my coffee. Apart from the shivering thought of mother’s milk in my sausage gravy or breakfast, I’d wonder about the source of the juice.

If I buy "Moo Juice" at the store, there’s a bunch of checks and balances and inspections to ensure the purity of the product and an expiration date on the container. Admittedly that doesn’t always guarantee a safe product. But in the case of this restaurant, what regulatory controls exist for ensuring the safety of the Mother’s Milk supply? I sure wouldn’t want to tackle a bowl of Cream of Mushroom soup laced with an HIV positive crack whore’s lactation. Makes you wonder if he’s putting any additives in his egg whites. - sied
[The source of the milk would be a big concern for me too sied.  Although most guys aren’t real picky about who they have sex with so why should they be that picky about who their milk comes from?  Most (not all, but most) guys wouldn’t have sex with a cow but they drink their milk!

And on behalf of myself and the rest of the group I’d like to say, the egg white comment might keep me from ever eating out again!]

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