Ever sit next to a transvesite or other weird person?

[Malachii]

I passed through Amsterdam a year ago backpacking. After making friends with some guys at the hostel, we decided to check out the Red Light District at night. The prostitutes were amazing, and we were taking in the sights when this drunk Irish dude I was with became smitten with this rather wide (although not entirely unattractive) "woman." He was negotiating with "her" and asking how much when all of a sudden this drunk stroll up and said "Ah, ya don't want to do that one lad. That's a man. Always look for the Adam's Apple!"

The things you learn while drunk in foreign lands...

I also took a sociology class last semester at school in which we got to meet a number of tranvestites and transexuals and listen to them speak. One of our transvestite speakers was a very successful former CEO (he wouldn't tell us for which company) who talked with us a great deal about his life and how cross dressing is a compulsion and something that he has no control over. Very eloquent, thoughtful, and well spoken man. I can honestly say that whatever prejudices I had towards transexuals and transvestites vanished after taking that class and hearing them speak. Although I'm a very accepting person, I don't know if that applies to everyone who took the class...