OPINION:
Why on earth would I be interested in Bruce Jenner’s sex life, or whether he wants to view himself as a man or as a woman? Don’t people have enough problems of their own, trying to deal with the hand that was dealt them, that we must become absorbed with a celebrity who can’t?
Besides the traditional practice of curing diseases and correcting injuries, modern medicine can perform miracles making the short taller and the tall shorter (leg-bone surgery), and turning men into faux women and vice-versa. I’ve known some of these forlorn refugees, who had hoped to find salvation in a different sex and only found themselves in different clothes, still unhappy. Everyone has mixed male and female aspects in their brain and as parts of their character and personality. The challenge of living is to keep them in balance, not obsess over “Who or what am I?” and get on with this all too-short life.
So Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, is a Republican. So what? Why, if gender identity is supposed to be such a national issue, did we assume that only liberal Democrats were so afflicted, even though they champion every imaginable expression of sexuality and ask others to salute it all?
CARL PEARLSTON
Torrance, Calif.
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